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.
LEO TOLSTOYTo tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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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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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I 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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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