Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
LEO TOLSTOYLet the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Faith is the force of life.
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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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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.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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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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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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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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