"If you want to be happy, be. Words of inspiration and optimism tailored for a fulfilling life."
-- Leo Tolstoy"If you want to be happy, be. A profound reflection on finding meaning, contentment, and joy."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Happiness is in your ability to love others."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart."
-- Leo Tolstoy"The most important time is Now."
-- Leo Tolstoy"If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person."
-- Leo Tolstoy"He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking."
-- Leo Tolstoy"If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living."
-- Leo Tolstoy"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."
-- Leo Tolstoy"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible."
-- Leo Tolstoy"The surest sign of the truth is simplicity and clarity."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings."
-- Leo Tolstoy"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already."
-- Leo Tolstoy"To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy."
-- Leo Tolstoy"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait."
-- Leo Tolstoy"If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul."
-- Leo Tolstoy"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself."
-- Leo Tolstoy