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.
LEO TOLSTOYRespect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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