“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
“Have a goal in life. A goal for a certain time, for a year, for a month, for a week, for a day or for an hour and for a minute, sacrificing lower goals to highest.”
“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.”
“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.”
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
“All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
“The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.”
“Everything depends on upbringing.”
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”
“Great things are always simple and modest.”
“There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.”
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
“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.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.”
“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”
“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;“
“Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.”
“A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.”
“There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent.”
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”
“You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work… if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.”
“The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.”
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.”
“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
“I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.”
“Beware of anything that is not approved by your conscience.”
“Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with you kindness. Even if you do not achieve victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.”
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
“How can one be well…when one suffers morally?”
“The Kingdom of God is Within You,”
“The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.”
“Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!”
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you!”
“Kings are the slaves of history.”
“If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.”
“There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.”
“Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.”
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
“Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.”
“We lost because we told ourselves we lost.”
“A truly wise man is always joyful.”
“Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.”
“If one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be…”
“The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.”
“The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.”
“The surest sign of the truth is simplicity and clarity. Lie is always complicated, pretentious and wordy.”
“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
“It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”
“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.”
“Some mathematician said: ‘Pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.’”
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
“If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.”
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
“Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.”
“It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.”
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way“
“Boredom: the desire for desires.”
“Life did not stop, and one had to live.”
“To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.”
“Everything intelligent is so boring.”
“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, look around you.”
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”
“Pleasure lies not in discovering truth but in seeking it.”
“It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice“
“Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them.”
“Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.”
“If you want to be happy, be.”
“Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.”
“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”
“Conceit is incompatible with understanding.”
“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.”