Leo Tolstoy
God knows, but He's waitingCollection: Waiting
She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.Collection: Struggle
Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.Collection: Fashion
I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.Collection: Heart
And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.Collection: Children
The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.Collection: Men
It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which power may fall, and does fall, into the, hands of the worst men.Collection: Fall
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.Collection: Peace
There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.Collection: Time
The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.Collection: Military
The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.Collection: Littles
A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them.Collection: Men
The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.Collection: Men
From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.Collection: Baby
Teach French and unteach sincerity.Collection: Sincerity
If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.Collection: Children
Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.Collection: Ideas
There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.Collection: Heart
In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.Collection: And Love
The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.Collection: World
The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.Collection: Patience
We are asleep until we fall in love.Collection: Love
There is only one time that is important – NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.Collection: Important
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.Collection: Powerful
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.Collection: Truth
In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.Collection: Winter
Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory.Collection: Real
To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, ‘Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.’Collection: Evil
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.Collection: Book
It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts – more clearly than in any book – that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.Collection: Book