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.
LEO TOLSTOYWrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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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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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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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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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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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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