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  • #1
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #2
    Leo Tolstoy
    “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.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #3
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you want to be happy, be.”
    Leo Tolstory

  • #4
    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

  • #5
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #6
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #7
    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

  • #8
    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... 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.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #9
    Leo Tolstoy
    “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #10
    Leo Tolstoy
    “When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #11
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #13
    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

  • #14
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #15
    Alexandre Dumas fils
    “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
    Alexandre Dumas-fils

  • #16
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #17
    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #20
    Neal A. Maxwell
    “Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But the highest source of suffering appears to be reserved for the innocent who undergo divine tutorial training.”
    Neal A. Maxwell

  • #21
    Neal A. Maxwell
    “Our afflictions brothers and sisters often will not be extinguished, they will be dwarfed and swallowed up in the joy of Christ. That’s how we overcome, most of the time. It’s not their elimination, but the placing of them in that larger context.”
    Neal A. Maxwell

  • #22
    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #23
    Anaïs Nin
    “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
    Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

  • #24
    Mitch Albom
    “Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.”
    Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

  • #25
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    Soren Kierkegaard

  • #26
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #27
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see”
    Soren Kierkegaard

  • #28
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt, It Seems to Me: Selected Letters

  • #29
    “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
    Henry Thomas Buckle

  • #30
    “You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
    Olin Miller



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