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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Leo Tolstoy

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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Always Ignorance Noble Talk Thinking Understand
Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Improvement Increase Life Person Positive Task
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Feeling Love Possible Share
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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Divine Enemy Human Love Person
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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Anniversary Couple I Love You Love Person Valentine
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Family Happiness Unhappy
It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Battle Die God Sleep Spare Willing
Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Alive Bury Dead Happiness Inspirational Live
I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Cause Evil Live Myself Positive Want
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.
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Clothes Food Giving Man Shame Strave Unhappy
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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Happiness Interest Love Moments Reality World
Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Couple Love One Liner Positive
Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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God Happiness Himself Rise Seek Surrender Temple Unhappy
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Beauty Goodness Illusion Strange Suppose
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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Giving Increase People Poverty
If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Love Peace Whisper

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