He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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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.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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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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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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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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Faith is the force of life.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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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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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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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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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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