In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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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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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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