What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
LEO TOLSTOYMy principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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God is the same everywhere.
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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Love those you hate you.
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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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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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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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