If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
LEO TOLSTOYEvery heart has its own skeletons.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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 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.
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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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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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