Leo Tolstoy Quotes You Should Know Before You Get Old

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life. The only thing that we know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of If you look for perfection, you'll never be content. All violence consists of some people forcing others under threat of suffering or death to do what they do not want to do. The greatest joy that a man can experience is victory over himself. Music is the shorthand of emotion. Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feelings the artist has experienced. The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already. But the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already without a shadow of doubt what is laid before him. Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them. True life is lived when tiny changes occur. There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way. If you want to be happy, be. All happy families resemble one another. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man. 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. The best stories don't come from good versus bad, but good versus good. All great literature is one of two stories. A man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. I think if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power. But love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are opposite to goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty. It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong. The whole world knows that truth is beautiful. Why do not people try to attain it? One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken. A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. We can know only that we know nothing, and that is the highest degree of human wisdom. The law condemns the thief who steals the goose from off the common, but lets the greater villain loose who steals the common from the goose. Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. In all history, there is no war which was not hatched by the governments. The governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work and look around you. All everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. The greatest joy that a man can experience is giving, and the deepest suffering is caused by selfishness. Art is the activity by which a person, having experienced an emotion, intentionally transmits it to others. The only way to get rid of temptations is to yield to them. Everyone thinks they'll live forever, they don't know about death. The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. The more we live with our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life. The greatest joy that can come to a man is to conquer his enemies by turning them into friends. There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth. A quiet, secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to having it done to them, is the truest life. The truth is that the state is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all, to corrupt its citizens. In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second is listening, the third is remembering, the fourth is practicing, and the fifth, teaching others. The more educated a man is, the less he knows about life. A man is like a tree, if you take away the leaves, branches, and bark. What is left is a mere trunk, similarly, if you take away the body, senses, and mind, the spirit remains. Thank you for watching. If you enjoyed this video, please hit the like button and leave a comment. Click the subscribe button to get more videos like this one.