If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
LEO TOLSTOYLife did not stop, and one had to live.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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Faith is the force of life.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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