Leo Tolstoy

People want to remain as bad as they are, but they want their lives to improve.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

A truthful word is more powerful than popes, bishops, kings, and all the rich men on earth.

Work as if you’re going to live forever, and treat people as if you’re going to die at any second.

Getting used to a life of idleness is worse than all life’s disasters.

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

People aren’t punished for their sins, they’re punished by their sins. This is the gravest and surest punishment.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Your actions should be determined not by the desire of the people around you, but by the needs of all mankind.

We should be satisfied with the small things in life. The less we need, the less trouble we can have.

Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

If you want to be happy, be.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre.