It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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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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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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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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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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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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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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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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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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