Music is the shorthand of emotion.
LEO TOLSTOYWhen you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Faith is the force 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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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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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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