Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
LEO TOLSTOYGrow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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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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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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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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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