"People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days,"imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days"and that human nature changes with the times."
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Leo Tolstoy
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Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
"Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere."
"Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness"
"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."
"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad"but "good vs. good."
"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."
"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here."
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad"but "good vs. good."
"Boredom: the desire for desires."
"truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
"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."
"Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it."
"A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul."
"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here."
"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here."
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
"If you want to be happy, be."
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad"but "good vs. good."