Leo Tolstoy on life
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Kings are the slaves of history.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy 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.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy 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 TolstoyLeo Tolstoy We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy We are asleep until we fall in Love!
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy 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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Melody LeeMelody Lee Oh moonlight, continue to shine on me. As you light up the sky, maybe some peace will come to me.
ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
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You shouldn’t be blamed for my standards being as high as they are. It’s just, I tasted the beauty of your love in our past life, and ever since then, I took an oath to never settle for any type of mediocre love.
Diary S.HDiary S.H Her dreams, visions, and goals were in love with her, they beautifully came to life.
Dr. Zainab AnsariDr. Zainab Ansari Smile and let the one whose existence sparks you, be the generator of your precious curving of the mouth.
Dr. Zainab AnsariDr. Zainab Ansari There’s a fine line between sanity and madness in being alive.
Ana SoulfulAna Soulful I am welcoming a new phase of life with confidence in my potential to progress in spite of my fears.
Shelby EnsignShelby Ensign Health is a wealth that is irreplaceable and we only realize its value when it starts failing.
Dr. Zainab AnsariDr. Zainab Ansari You already have yourself and that is pretty much all that you need in life.
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