Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOYBoredom: the desire for desires.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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