Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
LEO TOLSTOYMan cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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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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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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