LEO TOLSTOY

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be

Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything,

but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary,

which are less necessary,

and which are complet...

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself.

The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction