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 TOLSTOYDebates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Love those you hate you.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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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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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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