Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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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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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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God is the same everywhere.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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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.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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