More Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
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.
It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
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. Leo Tolstoy
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.
Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
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.
