If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. – Leo Tolstoy
If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. – Leo Tolstoy
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. – Leo Tolstoy
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God. – Leo Tolstoy
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming — a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from Frenc