In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
LEO TOLSTOYLet us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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God is the same everywhere.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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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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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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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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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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