Tolstoy quotes
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
If you want to be happy, be.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself.
The greatest joy in life is to create something that outlives us.
If you want to be successful, learn how to fail.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
All happy families resemble one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
The strongest of all warriors are these two – time and patience.
Everyone thinks of changing humanity, but no one thinks of changing themselves.
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already.
The best stories don’t come from ‘good vs. bad’ but ‘good vs. good’.
A person is a mirror for their surrounding world.
Everyone wants to change the world, but no one wants to change themselves.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
The measure of a society can be how well its people treat the most vulnerable among them.
All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love.
The role of the artist is to ask the right questions.
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not earthly but manmade.
Faith is the force of life.
If everyone lived for one’s own advantage, there would be no advantage for anyone.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
War is so terrible that it outlaws all other evils.
If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
The only way to live is to love and to work.
The greatest lie ever told is that the truth can be found in a book.
The more we try to provide the happiness for someone else, the more we are actually doing it for ourselves.
Man is created for happiness, and whenever he’s happy, he’s in his natural state.
The most important knowledge is not learned but felt.
The happiness of man consists in life participation in the life of all times.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.
As long as there is life, there is happiness.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority shares it.
Surrounding yourself with good people is like finding a hidden treasure.
We can know only that we know nothing.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
All that I know, I know only because I love.
The task of an artist is to express what one feels.
Life could be limitless joy if we would only take it as it comes, in the only moment we have – the present moment.
A good society is one that makes a person happy, and happiness consists in one’s striving for the common good.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already.
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
The love for one’s children is the most wholesome and purest love.
The only absolute knowledge worth attaining is that life is meaningless.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.