“The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.”
God
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
ChangeAll Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
Change“If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.”
Men“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
Love“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.”
Food“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Change“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
Music“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.”
Alone“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
Love“War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.”
War“If you want to be happy, be.”
Happiness“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.”
Art“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
Art“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.”
Life“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”
Happiness“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
God“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
Truth“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.”
Death“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”
Life“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Patience