More Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
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.
It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness
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.
Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth
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.
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
