I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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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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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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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