“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Patience
“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”
HappinessAll Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
“All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.”
Death“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“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
Art“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
Truth“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
Music“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“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.”
Change“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
Government“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“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Family“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”
Life“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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Amazing“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
Truth“War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.”
War“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