If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
LEO TOLSTOYThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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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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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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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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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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