Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Russia alone is to be the savior of Europe.
Life did not stop, and one had to live.
Wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort, is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.
God gave the day, God gave the strength.
I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
What time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life?
Self-conceit is a sentiment entirely incompatible with genuine sorrow, and it is so firmly engrafted on human nature that even the most profound sorrow can seldom expel it altogether. Vanity in sorrow...
If you feel no love for people - don't get up from your chair.' Nekhlyudov was thinking of himself. 'Stay involved with yourself, and things, anything you like, but don't get involved with people. Jus...
Her eyes, always sad, now looked into the mirror with particular hopelessness. She's flattering me, thought the princess, and she turned away and went on reading. Julie, however, was not flattering he...
Everything I know, I know because of love.
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.
Yes, it was real hatred - not the hatred we only read about in novels, which I do not believe in, hatred that is supposed to find satisfaction in doing some one harm - but the hatred that fills you wi...
When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hostility to this world, came over him...It was all dro...
I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.