In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
he looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pluck and so destroy it
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.
The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}
I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will find peace in your mind when you know you are not to blame.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs.
Freethought is a necessary evil that must be fought against, but no one has the right to limit or suppress it.
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shad
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.
The beautiful is as useful today as it was in the beginning, and it will continue to be so till the end.
The business of art lies just in this— to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.
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