57 result(s) for Leo Tolstoy Quotes.
"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself."
"The best stories don’t come from 'good vs. bad' but 'good vs. good.'"
"Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude."
"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs."
"To get rid of an enemy, one must love him."
"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it."
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
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"The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience."
"Everyone wants to change the world, but few realize they must first change themselves."
"Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness."
"If, then, I were asked for the most important advice that I could give, I should say - Do not conform."
"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself."
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth."
"Boredom is the desire for desires."
"The best stories don't come from 'good vs. bad' but 'good vs. good'."
"If, then I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
"Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody thinks of changing themselves."
"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
"Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts."
"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do."
"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."
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"The strongest of all warriors are these two: Time and Patience."
"Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect."
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it."
"We lost because we told ourselves we lost."
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
"The best stories don't come from 'good vs. bad' but 'good vs. good.'"
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you."
"Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed."
"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."
"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
"Boredom: the desire for desires."
"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."
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"Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom."
"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken."
"The two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar things new."
"Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised."
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
"Spring is the time of plans and projects."
"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly."
"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible."
"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
"The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience."
"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom."
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."
"Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us."
"The truth."
"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."
"If you want to be happy, be."
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