September 9 Quotes

44 quotes in this collection

"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

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

-- Socrates

"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
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