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.
LEO TOLSTOYOnly 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Love those you hate you.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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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.
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Faith is the force of life.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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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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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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