Leo Tolstoy

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Which is worse? The wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Why is that others have so much faith in me, while I have so little? Why can’t I have the same belief in me that they have? Why can’t I see in myself, what they do? What is it that makes me, hold myself back? How many more hurdles do I need to overcome? There are so many questions that I have to find the answers to. And I will only find them by focusing and being completely honest with myself.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.