Life did not stop, and one had to live.
Leo Tolstoy
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. —Leo Tolstoy
CHRISTINE PORATH But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will ...
LEO TOLSTOY I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.
LEO TOLSTOY Tolstoy is frequently quoted as saying something about how all happy families are the same. but unha...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL თანამედროვე დროს აუცილებელია დათმო გ...
LEO TOLSTOY In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, lin...
LEO TOLSTOY Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentime...
LEO TOLSTOY Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the ...
JOEL CARMICHAEL All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOY The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really for...
LEO TOLSTOY Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we th...
LEO TOLSTOY All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Oblonsy was fond of a pleasant joke, and sometimes liked to perplex a simple-minded man by observing...
LEO TOLSTOY If he had a reason for preferring Liberalism to the Conservatism of many in his set, it was not that...
LEO TOLSTOY The aim of civilization is to enable us to get enjoyment out of everything.
LEO TOLSTOY Kwon Yin from China
Jesus from Israel
Buddha from India
Rumi from Afghanistan
Martin Luther King...
O ANNA NIEMUS An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only o...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet s...
LEO TOLSTOY He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was l...
LEO TOLSTOY I don't believe that my first name is Leo or that my last name is Tolstoy. I'm a storyteller...
ROBERT LUDLUM The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostil...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.
P.D. JAMES it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
LEO TOLSTOY But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.
LEO TOLSTOY Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. ...
LEO TOLSTOY I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for the past love whi...
LEO TOLSTOY I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of...
LEO TOLSTOY If Glendower had not saved Gansey's life, he did not know who to thank, or who to be, or how to live...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER But in spacious, vigorous story-telling, in the use of an historical framework, in the relating of h...
PETER WASHINGTON Live your life and stop judging the life of others..
OLASOT The main thing for me is to just live life with my family and friends. They treat me like Leo, not l...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the ac...
EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one life the Aching Or ...
EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching...
EMILY DICKINSON All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
LEO TOLSTOY Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven
LEO TOLSTOY He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for...
LEO TOLSTOY He understood that feeling of Levin's so well, knew that for Levin all the girls in the world were d...
LEO TOLSTOY I think love, both kinds of love, which you remember Plato defines in his "Symposium" - both kinds o...
LEO TOLSTOY Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
A. N. WILSON STOP Asking For Permission, TO LIVE YOUR LIFE...
DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD Dear America, stop catering to sensitive people and live your life boldly!
TROY J. GAINEY I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Stop living the life with possibilities and probabilities, live the life with certainties.
AMIT KALANTRI When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, chil...
MAJ SJOWALL We had to stop her. We knew we had to stop her. They are not a one-player team. They are a good team...
PATRICK ARNEY If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life th...
EMILY DICKINSON Your life is your spiritual path.
It's what's right in front of you. You can't live anyon...
SANDY NATHAN Through the decade of the 1880s and into the early 1890s, Tolstoy and Fedorov met many times, and To...
GEORGE M. YOUNG It was a trying time. And Leo stepped up and did very well.
JANICE FARINON If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
EMILY DICKINSON I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
JAMES BALDWIN When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
JAMES A. BALDWIN When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
LARAINE DAY If I can stop one heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease on Life the Achin...
EMILY DICKINSON Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.
ROY T. BENNETT I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I'm not going to climb into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
TANYA MASSE The way Leo figured it, he spent more time crashing than he did flying. If there were a rewards card...
RICK RIORDAN One of the greatest tragedies of life is to work your life away only to realise later that you never...
TOPSY GIFT Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of the...
ABHIJIT NASKAR They tried to warn the vehicle to stop, ... It did not stop.
PETER PACE Stop simply living for one tomorrow and live for all eternity!
ISAAC JOHN GERAMI Richard did what he had to do to stop Alfred Garcia.
MARK GARVER I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all th...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Sou amigo da divisão do trabalho. Pessoas que não fazem nada devem fazer pessoas, enquanto as dema...
LEO TOLSTOY Todas as mulheres são mais materialistas do que os homens. Nós fazemos do amor algo enorme, mas el...
LEO TOLSTOY He did everything full throttle. He enjoyed life. He wasn't stupid. He knew he had so much to live f...
MARCY ROWE Waterloo has had our number. We needed to make a stop and we did.
MIKE HASTINGS I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that ra...
WERNER HERZOG How to live life;If we live each day as if it will be our very last,one day we will be absolutely co...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Live each day to the fullness, live the life that you imagine.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I did not push Paul or Leo to come into the business. I let everything happen as it would, but I was...
LEONARD UNDERWOOD In the summer of 1866, as Leo Tolstoy prepared for his serialized novel 'War and Peace' to b...
ALEXANDER CHEE The idea of a book that can make a change to your life, that can affect your perspective, is a beaut...
ALAIN DE BOTTON It did not stop there.
CHARLES TAYLOR LIFE AND LIVE:
“ You only live once but if you live it fullest then once is enough. It is never a ...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a tot...
RICK RIORDAN And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year t...
C.S. LEWIS One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.
LORRIE MOORE Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselve...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselve...
CHAMFORT Leo already attempted to do that one at the first meeting.
TERRY PENDLETON Live as if you had one minute left to live. You then have at least one minute of life to it's fulles...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
LEO TOLSTOY The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.
VINCENT NICHOLS I say to the young: Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you ca...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy.
TOLSTOY I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte...
ERRI DE LUCA One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing an...
VICTOR GARBER It shows you that one person's life can make a difference. You had to stop in some sort of reverence...
DERRICK JOHNSON As it was before, so it was now; I need only be aware of God to live; I need only forget Him, or dis...
LEO TOLSTOY Everything they did I had seen on film. One of the screens was new. But they didn't have to do anyth...
JUSTIN ABNEE By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymo...
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LEO TOLSTOY You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by...
LEO TOLSTOY Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
LEO TOLSTOY But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
LEO TOLSTOY In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's comp...
LEO TOLSTOY But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordina...
LEO TOLSTOY The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her l...
LEO TOLSTOY Spring is the time of plans and projects.
LEO TOLSTOY He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing t...
LEO TOLSTOY If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by...
LEO TOLSTOY Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one ...
LEO TOLSTOY I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's...
LEO TOLSTOY All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
LEO TOLSTOY Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was...
LEO TOLSTOY Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had...
LEO TOLSTOY In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubbl...
LEO TOLSTOY Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was ...
LEO TOLSTOY You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love...
LEO TOLSTOY He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happines...
LEO TOLSTOY One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
LEO TOLSTOY The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.
LEO TOLSTOY