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It's not enough to have lived.
We should be determined to live for something.
May I suggest that it be creating joy for others,
sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind,
bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.


Leo F. Buscaglia

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LEO TOLSTOI I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance ...
LEO TOLSTOY The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants,...
LEO BURNETT it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
LEO TOLSTOY True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the peopl...
LEO TOLSTOY What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transf...
LEO TOLSTOY Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
LEO ROSTEN A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of hi...
LEO TOLSTOY The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOY Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capa...
LEO ROSTEN I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom a...
LEO TOLSTOY The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all ...
LEO TOLSTOY To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as sayin...
LEO TOLSTOY The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But ...
LEO TOLSTOY In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, ...
LEO ROSTEN It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.
LEO MCKERN Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!
LEO TOLSTOY Don't lie if you don't have to.
LEO SZILARD The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the dem...
LEO TOLSTOY Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.
LEO ROSTEN But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.
LEO TOLSTOY I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of ...
LEO TOLSTOY Anything is better than lies and deceit!
LEO TOLSTOY Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to u...
LEO TOLSTOY If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
LEO TOLSTOY Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
LEO TOLSTOY I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are...
LEO TOLSTOY It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and wil...
LEO TOLSTOY Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
LEO TOLSTOY It's hard to love a woman and do anything.
LEO TOLSTOY She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here...
LEO TOLSTOY A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he parti...
LEO TOLSTOY We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOY Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity...
LEO TOLSTOY O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath...
LEO ROSTEN A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is e...
LEO TOLSTOY In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
LEO TOLSTOY Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
LEO TOLSTOY