Boredom: the desire for desires.
LEO TOLSTOYA man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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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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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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