All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Faith is the force of 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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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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