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#1

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy

#2

“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.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: anna-karenina, love, tolstoy

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#3

“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: bad, liar

1460 likes

#4

“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."

- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: love

1455 likes

#5

“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.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

848 likes

#6

“it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: anna-karenina, deeds, good, leo-tolstoy

803 likes

#7

“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: love, woman

522 likes

#8

“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: compatibility

459 likes

#9

“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.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: being-loved, happiness, inspirational, philosophy

497 likes

#10

“Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.”
― Leo Tolstoy

316 likes

#11

“Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. ”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: death, inspirational

344 likes

#12

“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.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: endurance, pacing, war-and-peace

293 likes

#13

“It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: death, god

258 likes

#14

“Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: marriage

239 likes

#15

“I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible… except by getting off his back.”
― Leo Tolstoy, What Then Must We Do?

tags: exploitation, greed, privilege

262 likes

#16

“Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Война и мир

196 likes

#17

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: love, respect

3684 likes

#18

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: education, schooling, university

2010 likes

#19

“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

731 likes

#20

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

676 likes

#21

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: comfort, loneliness, solitude, strength

646 likes

#22

“The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain”
― Leonardo da Vinci

391 likes

#23

“As you cannot do what you want,
Want what you can do”
― Leonardo da Vinci

328 likes

#24

“One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.”
― Leonardo DaVinci

313 likes

#25

“I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

307 likes

#26

“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

296 likes

#27

“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: motivational, purpose, work

231 likes

#28

“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

tags: dying, last-words

214 likes

#29

“God sells us all things at the price of labor.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

tags: work

184 likes

#30

“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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