All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
If you want to be happy, be.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
A man on a thousand-mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.’
If you want to be happy, be.
The greatest work of man is the spirit, it cannot be destroyed by any crime, but together with the body it must perform its specific work.
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 sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
If you want to be happy, be.
The knowledge of all things is possible.
All that I know, I know because I love.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
Tolstoy quotes part 2
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken.
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Joy can come from the simplest things, if we open our hearts to receive it.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you live.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
The most powerful word in the world is ‘no.’
It is easier to know how to do things than to do them.
The only thing that we cannot know is the future.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
The greater the man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
The most difficult subject can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of it 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 shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
The living know themselves to be eternal, for the soul is an eternal principle of life.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
The greater the percentage of smokers, the smaller the percentage of thinkers.
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