I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly
Leo TolstoyBut that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.
Leo TolstoyThe simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.
Leo TolstoyEvery heart has its own skeletons.
Leo TolstoyHer maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy
Leo TolstoyIn all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling.
Leo Tolstoyeither you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it...
Leo TolstoyQuos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad (Latin).
Leo TolstoyIn order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement. When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertake.
Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.
The best solution is to be kind and good while ignoring the opinions of others.
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