Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOY
It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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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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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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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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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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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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