Leo Tolstoy, Война и мир Quotes
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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.
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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.
Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.
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.
truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
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.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.
The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.
If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.
