If you want to be happy, be.
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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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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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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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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