Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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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 two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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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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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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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’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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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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