If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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 only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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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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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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Faith is the force of life.
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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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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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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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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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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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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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