If you want to be happy, be.
LEO TOLSTOYHe 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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 we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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