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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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Consist Happiness Honeymoon Live Travel Vacation
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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Divine Enemy Human Love Person
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Intellectual Life Live Understand
Love those you hate you.
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Hate Love One Liner
The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Business Entrepreneur Goodness Story Success
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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Clothes Food Giving Man Shame Strave Unhappy
The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Discover Law Love Reason
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Depend Happiness Inspirational
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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Greatness Journey Literature Man Story Strange Town
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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Complete Knowledge Life Necessary Real Wisdom
Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Improvement Increase Life Person Positive Task
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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Capable Grief Heal Love Necessary People Serve Sorrow Strong
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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Alone Eternal General God Love Retrurn Source United
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Deaf History People
Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Happiness Life Love Unhappy
If you want to be happy, be.
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Happiness One Liner Positive Want

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