Leo Tolstoy Quotes

There is only one enduring happiness in life—to live for others.

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• To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Data

• Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Life
  • Fabulous
  • Madonna

• As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Live
  • Culture

• My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Gymnastics

• It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Life
  • Long
  • Self

• Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

  

  Vash Young
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Chance

• Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Blessing

• I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • Nature
  • New Life

• We live because of the dreams.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Live
  • Dreams
  • Because

• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Art
  • Death

• I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Life
  • Money
  • Business

• I have got a fantastic life and I just like to get on with it, and I am quite a private person.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Life
  • Person
  • Fantastic

• Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opinion

• I always walk up the escalator on the Tube, and I live in a house with a lot of stairs, and that's good exercise, but you need more than that.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Point
  • Fun Time

• The very first pharmaceutical commercial I ever heard was 15 seconds of the product and 45 seconds of side effects, so I know that this cannot be good for you.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Good
  • Commercial
  • Pharmaceutical

• I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Dad
  • Thought
  • Years

• The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

  

  Duane Chapman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Death

• There is only one enduring happiness in life—to live for others.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Live