More Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?
Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.
