“If you want to be happy, be.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
“The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.”
“We are asleep until we fall in love.”
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
“Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.”
“Boredom: the desire for desires.”
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”
“Happy people have no history.”
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
“If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.”
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”
“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.”
“There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.”
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
“There is only one time that is important – NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.”
“Read less, study less, but think more.”
“The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.”
“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”
“Vengeance is mine; I will repay.”
“An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?”
“Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.”
“The most important time is Now.”
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
“Life is fragile and absurd.”
“The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.”
“As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.”
“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
“Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.”
“Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.”
“In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...”
“Upon meeting, you’re judged by your clothes, upon parting you’re judged by your wits.”
“Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.”
“Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?”
“When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.”
“For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.”
“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.”
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