

“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Traced to Anna Karenina (1875).
More from Leo Tolstoy
“Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”
Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich · 1886
verified“To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.”
Leo Tolstoy
The First Step · 1892
verified“There is only one enduring happiness in life — to live for others.”
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Family Happiness · 1859
verified“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
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War and Peace · 1869
verified“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
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War and Peace · 1869
verified“The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.”
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace · 1869
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“It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.”
Helen Keller
The Simplest Way to be Happy · 1933
verified“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
Helen Keller
The Open Door · 1957
verified“There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Tomorrow Is Now · 1963
verified“One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
My Day · 1943
verified“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
You Learn by Living · 1960
verified“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
You Learn by Living · 1960
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