When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYGrow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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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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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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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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God is the same everywhere.
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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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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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