Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Faith is the force of life.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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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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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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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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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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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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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 only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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