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 TOLSTOYFaith is the force of life.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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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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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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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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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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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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God is the same everywhere.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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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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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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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 we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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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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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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