Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
LEO TOLSTOYTo tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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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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