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.
LEO TOLSTOYThe more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Love those you hate you.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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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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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Faith is the force of life.
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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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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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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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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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God is the same everywhere.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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