It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Everything I know, I know because of 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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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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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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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Faith is the force of life.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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