If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.
Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness.
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More Quotes from Leo Tolstoy
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
More on Happiness
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
