From Leo Tolstoy: “Boredom: the desire for desires.”
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Quote of the day 12/05/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “We lost because we told ourselves we lost.”
Quote of the day 12/04/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
Quote of the day 12/03/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”
Quote of the day 12/02/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “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.”
Quote of the day 12/01/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Quote of the day 11/30/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”
Quote of the day 11/29/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
Quote of the day 11/28/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Quote of the day 11/12/23
From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”