In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
LEO TOLSTOYFaith is the force of life.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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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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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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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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