Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
If you want to be happy, be.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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