More Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
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?
Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!
Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
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.
The most important time is Now
There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.
