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.
LEO TOLSTOYA 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.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
LEO TOLSTOYOnly 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.
LEO TOLSTOYWhatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
LEO TOLSTOYWithout this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
LEO TOLSTOYAll the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
LEO TOLSTOYSeize 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.
LEO TOLSTOYTo tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOYWe can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOYRest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
LEO TOLSTOYKings are the slaves of history.
LEO TOLSTOYMy piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
LEO TOLSTOYMy principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
LEO TOLSTOYAll happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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