The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.


Leo F. Buscaglia

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people wan...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
The easiest thing in the world to be is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people wan...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people wan...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT
Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF
Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
How to change the world:
• spread positivity
• bring people up instead of dragging the...
GERMANY KENT
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK
I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C.
Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ...
GERMANY KENT
Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
DAN ARIELY
Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To serve the world, serve yourself first by becoming happy and the best person that you can be.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on...
ROBERTO BENIGNI
7 Rules to a Happy Life:

1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
GERMANY KENT
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD
I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH
Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q...
JAMES RHODES
To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON
To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN
In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND
And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER
There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON
Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN
people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ
I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yo...
MIKE DIRNT
When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy
SOTONYE ANGA
If you are feeling constrained by a group that you belong to, ask yourself,
“How can I partic...
GINA GREENLEE
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Because I want to be remembered.
SHERMAN ALEXIE
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C.
Whether you choose to move on from your struggles and enjoy life or waddle in your misery, life will...
GERMANY KENT
Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI
Do you love me as the person that I am now, or do you love me as the person I used to be?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time ...
WIZ KHALIFA
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Dare to seize and make the most of all opportunities that life bring to your path.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
One thing I've learned about people is that the easiest way to get them to like you is to shut up an...
JESSE ANDREWS
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY
Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
It's a a damn good day to be alive.
MICHAEL CLIFFORD
People of different dispositions make the world go round. That's why it's insanity to try to be some...
UFUOMA APOKI
To be the best is a choice you make on your own
SOTONYE ANGA
The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD
I told him, 'The thing you have to understand . . . is put yourself in a position when it happens ag...
BRIAN SNITKER
If you want honesty and love, you have to be honest and loving and loveable.
AKSEL HENNIE
The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit...
GERMANY KENT
To be stabbed in the back by a person who appears to be good but has a cloak and dagger routine is d...
GARY F EVANS...
To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH
Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD
Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS
The hardest thing you need to learn in this world is ‘how to live’, for it is the only thing whi...
VIKRANT PARSAI
I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
"...
BRANDON SANDERSON
What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev...
MARIE LU
Dare to seize all the opportunities on your paths.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at n...
SIMON MAINWARING
How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
ANUJ SOMANY
How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T...
THOMAS S. MONSON
Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
MICHAELA D.
If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS...
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS
We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT
Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit...
GERMANY KENT
If you don’t have a goal and don’t know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are...
AHMED ALI ANJUM
I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
DANA PLATO
This is your moment. You're meant to be here.
HERB BROOKS
David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
You cant be in a position where you dont know what you are going to do next.
ERIC GREEN
And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY
I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what i...
MICHAEL JORDAN
He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.
BILL GATES
But, I've learned, as we all must, that adults are jerks too. At least some of them. And that's why ...
CLINTON KELLY
The real loser is someone who tries nothing and does nothing
SOTONYE ANGA
Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER
If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to ...
DAVID HALBERSTAM
Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE

More Leo F. Buscaglia

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a
listening ear, an hone...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, th...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest co...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the ge...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avo...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street an...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning an...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that witho...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relatio...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Sometimes you see a person, and you wonder why you don't spend more time with that person, because t...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external f...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
I've always though that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering supp...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisone...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn t...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, 'Where hav...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and ...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have ...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding ...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Most of us are pawns in a game of love we don't understand.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but n...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Change is the end result of all true learning.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the san...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
The greatest risk is the one not taken
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Ever had a relationship end in such a way that you never saw it coming, but it was as if an avalanch...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
....though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often utterly without prepara...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
It's not enough to have lived.
We should be determined to live for something.
May I sugge...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes an...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Happiness and love are just a choice away.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Love yourself—accept yourself—forgive yourself—and be good to yourself, because without you th...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time was...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
The most human thing we have to do in life is is to learn to speak our honest convictions and feelin...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Live,love and learn
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most es...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning an...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children se...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street an...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people wan...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with eve...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is n...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But t...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfactio...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this en...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes an...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest co...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people wan...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
We all need each other.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external f...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest c...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love mea...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Change is the end result of all true learning.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes an...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of da...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hu...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not g...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
A single rose can be my garden . . . a single friend, my world.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relat...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. -Leo Buscaglia.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
The easiest thing in the world to be is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people wan...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my book...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate-it's apathy. It's not giving a da...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I lea...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it!
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all e...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
The way to anybody's heart is through a thoughtfully-prepared, beautifully-executed, lovingly-pr...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
I was lucky to have such a loving, crazy family. I learned to give and share.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
I got the copyright for love!
LEO BUSCAGLIA
I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only s...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
One attempt to reconcile the Gnostic doctrine [of the unreality of evilness] of matter with the apos...
F. F. BRUCE
Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 The truth of Christ's supremacy over al...
F. F. BRUCE
The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writi...
F. F. BRUCE
Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
F. F. BRUCE
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
LEO TOLSTOY
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
LEO TOLSTOY
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not g...
LEO TOLSTOY
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
LEO TOLSTOY
Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
LEO ROSTEN
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what ...
LEO TOLSTOY
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken...
LEO TOLSTOY
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
LEO TOLSTOY
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
LEO TOLSTOY
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it u...
LEO TOLSTOY
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
LEO TOLSTOY
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
LEO TOLSTOY
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, ev...
LEO TOLSTOY
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
LEO TOLSTOY
Only those live who do good.
LEO TOLSTOY
But the peasants -- how do the peasants die?
LEO TOLSTOY
He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.
LEO TOLSTOY
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workin...
LEO TOLSTOY
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behi...
LEO ROSTEN
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessl...
LEO ROSTEN
In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that th...
LEO TOLSTOY
There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which...
LEO TOLSTOY
Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precise.
LEO ROSTEN
I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I ...
LEO ROSTEN
Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relat...
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