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.
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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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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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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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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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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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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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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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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