There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
LEO TOLSTOYRest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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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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