Quote by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach about Dreams and Hope
“Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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More Truths in a Book – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Quote by Leo Tolstoi About Improving Life
“People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.”
Leo Tolstoi
Quote About Security and Life by Leo Tolstoy
“Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.”
Leo Tolstoi
Mark Twain Quote on Courage and Determination
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
Mark Twain
Quote About Knowledge and Quality by Leo Tolstoy
“What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.”
Leo Tolstoi
Leo Tolstoy on Order, Knowledge and Compassion
“I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.”
Leo Tolstoi
Mark Twain Quote: Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel
“Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.”
Mark Twain
Do the Right Thing – Quote by Mark Twain
“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
Mark Twain
Quote About Kindness and Humanity by Leo Tolstoy
“The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.”
Leo Tolstoi