In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
LEO TOLSTOYWhat counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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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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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 intelligent is so boring.
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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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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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Faith is the force of life.
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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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