Leo Tolstoy Quotes

The man is making preparations for a year, and does not know that he will die before evening. And I remembered God's second saying, "Learn what is not given to man." 'What dwells in man" I already knew. Now I learnt what is not given him. It is not given to man to know his own needs.

I think that in order to know love one must make a mistake and then correct it.

Nothing has been discovered, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And that's the highest degree of human wisdom.

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

Without the support from religion — remember, we talked about it — no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.

In my considered opinion, salary is payment for goods delivered and it must conform to the law of supply and demand. If, therefore, the fixed salary is a violation of this law - as, for instance, when I see two engineers leaving college together and both equally well trained and efficient, and one getting forty thousand while the other only earns two thousand , or when lawyers and hussars, possessing no special qualifications, are appointed directors of banks with huge salaries - I can only conclude that their salaries are not fixed according to the law of supply and demand but simply by personal influence. And this is an abuse important in itself and having a deleterious effect on government service.

Neka žive kako hoće, a ja ću živeti kako ja hoću. Ja ne mogu biti drukčija… I sve bi trebalo da je drukčije, sve… Ja ne mogu živeti drukčije nego po srcu, a vi živite po pravilima.

And he has to live like this on the edge of destruction, alone, with nobody at all to understand or pity him

إذا غاب عن الإنسان الفهم والبصيرة بأن كل ماهو مؤقت ليس إلا نوعاً من الوهم، فإنه لن يؤمن إلا بما هو مؤقت. أما إذا رأى ببصيرته أن كل ماهو موقوت ليس إلا وهم، فحينئذ سيؤمن بما هو باقٍ ودائم.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.

When a person is haughty, he distances himself from other people and thereby deprives himself of one of life's biggest pleasures—open, joyful communication with everyone.