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.
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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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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