“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
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
PatienceAll Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Amazing“Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.”
Faith“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
Change“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Family“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“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
Love“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
Government“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
God“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”
Happiness“War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.”
War“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.”
Nature“War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.”
War“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.”
Death“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“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”
Life“The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.”
Patriotism“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
Truth“If you want to be happy, be.”
Happiness“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
Love