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.
LEO TOLSTOYThe only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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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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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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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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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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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Love those you hate you.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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