Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
LEO TOLSTOYMy piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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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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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Faith is the force of life.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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