Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
LEO TOLSTOYWithout this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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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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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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