Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOYDebates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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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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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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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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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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