“If You Want to Be Happy” – Quote by Leo Tolstoi
“If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.”
Leo Tolstoi
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Happy Marriage and Incompatibility – Quote by Leo Tolstoy
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
Leo Tolstoi
Quote About Intellect and the Meaning of Life by Leo Tolstoy
“The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.”
Leo Tolstoi
Love and Happiness – Quote by Leo Tolstoy
“Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind….Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.”
Leo Tolstoi
Quote by Mark Twain on Idiots and Members of Congress
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”
Mark Twain
Education Beyond Schooling – Mark Twain
“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.”
Mark Twain
Mark Twain Quote about Life and Youth
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”
Mark Twain
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: The Right Timing
“When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quote on Beauty and the Invisible
“What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Quote About Love and Acceptance by Leo Tolstoy
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.”
Leo Tolstoi