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    Leo Tolstoy
    “In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: inspirational, life, work
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “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.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: grief, inspirational
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you want to be happy, be.”
    ― Leo Tolstory
    tags: inspirational
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
    tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: honesty, independent-thought
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... 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.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. 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.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: war
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “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.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: romantic
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: happiness, life
    706 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, respect
    3713 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Boredom: the desire for desires.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: truth
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие
    tags: books, conduct-of-life, contentment, country, happiness, life, music, nature, neighborliness, rest, usefulness, work
    1972 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: perfection
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “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
    267 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “A 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.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: historians
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  • #25
    Leo Tolstoy
    “To get rid of an enemy one must love him. ”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: feel, feelings
    2284 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: anna-karenina, fear, levin, love
    366 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: happiness, love
    620 likes



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