More from Leo Tolstoy
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy 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 TolstoyLeo Tolstoy We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy We are asleep until we fall in Love!
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Everything 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 TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
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We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time, or as the greatest criminals.
Joseph GoebbelsJoseph Goebbels Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
Thurgood MarshallThurgood Marshall Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies. Aristocracy with the meaning – the best are ruling. Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was concocted by liberalism. Behind its people’s sovereignty the slyest cheaters are hiding, who don’t want to be recognized.
Joseph GoebbelsJoseph Goebbels If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction.
Joseph GoebbelsJoseph Goebbels There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
Thurgood MarshallThurgood Marshall I’ve always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I’ve always said is the best coach in the history of the league.
Tom BradyTom Brady My heart has a history of silent catastrophes.
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