When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYThe Kingdom of God is Within You.
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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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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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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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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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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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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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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 happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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