Quotes of Leo Tolstoy

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We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

- Leo Tolstoy

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“ I've always kept one emotional suitcase packed. With you, I live out of one, every day, and I keep a cab on speed dial. ”

- Heather Angelika Dooley

“ Our own selfesteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Give yourself permission to practice selfcare and to make time for your own dreams, goals, and priorities. ”

- Ruth Soukup

“ Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made. ”

- Tyler Kent White

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ You need just the right amount of 'Fuck the world' and the right amount of belief in something...and you need the right amount of love. ”

- Gerard Way

“ In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ”

- Anne Frank

“ If you suddenly stumble upon the right door, you will not be able to recognize that it is right. ”

- Osho

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ”

- Harold Geneen

“ Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you'll become. ”

- Mary Weber

“ The only shortcut I have found to life is to sharpen my teeth on the bones of the wise. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ”

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

“ ...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you. ”

- Anne Lamott

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ You are attracted to the love you didn't receive as a child ”

- Jodi Ann Quarrie

“ Fear lies. Save love. ”

- Arif Naseem

“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

“ Awake, my friend! Arise, my friend! Start walking my friend! And do not stop until you bring the change you wish to see in your society! ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ I love women, but I feel like you can’t trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog’s name. Then I said, ‘Does he bite?’ She said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?’ Liar. ”

- Demetri Martin

“ What I stand for is what I stand on. ”

- Wendell Berry

“ I believe in love the verb, not the noun. ”

- Greg Behrendt

“ feeling upset? look up a lover ”

- Arif Naseem

“ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. ”

- William Shakespeare