If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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God is the same everywhere.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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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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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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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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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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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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