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.
LEO TOLSTOYI wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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Love those you hate you.
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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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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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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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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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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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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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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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