All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything I know, I know because of love.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Man 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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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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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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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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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