Life did not stop, and one had to live.
LEO TOLSTOYThe 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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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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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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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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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no 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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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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