When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYFaith is the force of life.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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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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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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Love those you hate you.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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