I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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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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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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