Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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God is the same everywhere.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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