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Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.


Leo F. Buscaglia

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LEO ROSTEN It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.
LEO MCKERN Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!
LEO TOLSTOY Don't lie if you don't have to.
LEO SZILARD The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the dem...
LEO TOLSTOY Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.
LEO ROSTEN But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.
LEO TOLSTOY I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of ...
LEO TOLSTOY Anything is better than lies and deceit!
LEO TOLSTOY Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to u...
LEO TOLSTOY If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
LEO TOLSTOY Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
LEO TOLSTOY I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are...
LEO TOLSTOY It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and wil...
LEO TOLSTOY Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
LEO TOLSTOY It's hard to love a woman and do anything.
LEO TOLSTOY She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here...
LEO TOLSTOY A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he parti...
LEO TOLSTOY We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOY Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity...
LEO TOLSTOY O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath...
LEO ROSTEN A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is e...
LEO TOLSTOY In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
LEO TOLSTOY Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
LEO TOLSTOY