Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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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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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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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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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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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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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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