Music is the shorthand of emotion.
LEO TOLSTOYIn the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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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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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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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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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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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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God is the same everywhere.
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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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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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