Art of Wisdom
Lev Tolstoy
Lev Tolstoy
“If you can feel pain, you are alive, if you can feel someone else's pain, you are human.”
“He laughed more than anyone else, he is obviously in pain.”
“Think before you throw mud at someone and remember; your hands will get dirty first.”
“A good memory is the biggest hell.”
“Only those with deep love can feel deep pain.”
“All teachings that value a faithful person more than a good person are false.”
“People have changed a lot; you have to be careful. After shaking hands with someone, you have to count your fingers to see if all five are there.”
“You are not big enough to underestimate anyone. Because one day, for everything you despise, you will pay a price you care about.”
“Life does not bring back what is gone, nor does it turn back the time you have lost. Either you will live what you need to live on time or you will not cry because you didn't live.”
“People learn how to speak, but the greatest wisdom is to know how and when to keep silent.”
“Everything revolves around one big disgrace. They are all satisfied, they are sure that this is the way it has to be, they are willing to go on like this until they die. But I can't.”
“A coin pierces your pocket and a corrupt person pierces your heart. So spend them both.”
“Patience is the greatest virtue we show in difficult times. Waiting patiently is the most important step on the road to success.”
“Know that you are remembered not by what you have lived, but by what you have made live, and remember; whatever you have made live, you will surely live the same one day.”
“What seems distant and impossible can suddenly become near and possible.”
“He was eating, drinking, sleeping, waking, but not living.”
“Do the same favor to a person over and over again and the only thing you will see is tremendous ingratitude.”
“The more the wicked are put up with, the more they become more vicious.”
“Is it possible for someone with feelings to be good in these times?”
“Some people you meet twice.”
“Maybe we should just accept everything and let life take its course. Forcing is sometimes not the solution and nothing forced is beautiful.”
“It is useless to deceive oneself. Everything is empty! The happy person is the one who has not yet been born.”
“When you meet the other half of your soul, you will understand why it doesn't work with others.”
“Wisdom brings sorrow, and he who increases his knowledge increases his pain.”
“I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to live without doing evil to anyone but myself. I have the right, don't I?”
“People grow through pain. Life is not in the body but in the soul. Death is only liberation from the body. Sort out what is not bodily in your mind. Don't worry about the future, because there is no future. There is only the present. Live for it.”
“The biggest regret in life is what we don't do in case we regret it.”
“You know, I know everything, but some things I don't even want to know.”
“Happiness is not in the way you live, but in the way you look at life.”
“Why do we all suffer when everything can be so good?”
“A person who has no goal but his own happiness is evil.”
“People whose presence doesn't gain anything, whose absence loses nothing.”
“It is always one who loves, and the other who allows himself to be loved.”
“A person should be judged not by the position he occupies, but by the position he covets.”
“To operate on a person physically, it is necessary to put him to sleep; to operate on him spiritually, it is necessary to wake him up.”
“There is a saying that everyone mumbles; either die or become. But no one knows that being and dying are the same.”
“He was in bad shape, and it didn't matter to the doctor or anyone else that he was in bad shape, because he was the one in bad shape.”
“Learn from the lives of others. You don't live long enough to make all your own mistakes.”
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong just because most people do it.”
“Man's true strength is not in the leap, but in the unshakable stance.”
“If a man feels pain, he is alive. If he feels another's pain, he is human.”
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
“Why be angry with the devil? Do a good deed and he will be angry with you.”
“Everyone admits that humanity is going downhill, but no one admits that he himself is going downhill.”
“There are roosters who think the sun has risen because they crow.”
“Bread was expensive, labor was cheap.”
“There is nothing more necessary for a young man than to be with intelligent women.”
“The majority believe in God out of cowardice, it is only a few who believe out of maturity of spirit...”