I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
LEO TOLSTOYDon’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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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Faith is the force of life.
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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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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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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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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