Leo Tolstoy: His Words
By Daniel Coenn
First Edition
Copyright © 2014 by Daniel Coenn
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Leo Tolstoy: His Words
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Quotes
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”
“If you want to be happy, be.”
“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
“To get rid of an enemy one must love him.”
“Everything intelligent is so boring.”
“Every heart has its own skeletons.”
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
“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.”
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.”
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
“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.”
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. ”
“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
“A quiet secluded
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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG
Texte: Daniel Coenn
Bildmaterialien: Daniel Coenn
Lektorat: Blago Kirof
Tag der Veröffentlichung: 08.06.2014
ISBN: 978-3-7368-1859-0
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