Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOY
When 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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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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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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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