If you want to be happy, be.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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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.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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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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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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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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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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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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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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