Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOYGrow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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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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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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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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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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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 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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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