Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Love
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It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
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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.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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.
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One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.
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The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
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It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things, not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe
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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
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And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.
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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.
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Where there is love, there is God also.
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To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.
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Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.
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Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes - love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.
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And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".
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Commit no act that is contrary to love.
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Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.
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... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.
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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars
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When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.
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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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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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