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.
Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.
Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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.
Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness
The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.
Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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 something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.
