Leo Tolstoy

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

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.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.