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.
LEO TOLSTOYWe can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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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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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Faith is the force of life.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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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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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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