Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.
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More Quotes from Leo Tolstoy
If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.
› Leo Tolstoy
Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness.
› Leo Tolstoy
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
› Leo Tolstoy
True life is lived with tiny changes occur.
› Leo Tolstoy
More on Love
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
› Victor Hugo
We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.
› James Baldwin
What barrier is there that love cannot break?
› Mohandas Gandhi
Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.
› John James Ingalls
It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
› Marcus Aurelius
Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all.
› G. K Chesterton
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
› Bertrand Russell
From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
› Niccolo Machiavelli
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
› Margaret Mead
And God said love your enemy and I obeyed him and loved myself.
› Kahlil Gibran
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
› James Allen
