More Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
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.
Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?
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. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!
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.
It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
