Leo Tolstoy

“Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”

“To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.”

“There is only one enduring happiness in life — to live for others.”

“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”

“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

“The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.”

“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.”

“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”