Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
LEO TOLSTOYYou can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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