Leo Tolstoy Quotes

If you want to be happy, be.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.

We must not portray people as they are, but as we know them to be.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service.

Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority, is to say that it is bad.

Faith is the force of life.

To love life is to love God.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.