If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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More Quotes from Leo Tolstoy
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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.
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.
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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One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
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.
Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
Love is reflected in love.
The longer I live, the more deeply l learn that love - whether we call it friendship or family or romance is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light.
