Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
LEO TOLSTOYRespect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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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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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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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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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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