Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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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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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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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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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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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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