True life is lived with tiny changes occur.
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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More Quotes from Leo Tolstoy
Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.
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.
One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.
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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Such sober certainty of walking bliss.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
