Quotes

1. "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

2. "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

3. "If you want to be happy, be."

4. "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

5. "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."

6. "What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important."

7. "If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."

8. "The best stories don't come from 'good vs. bad' but 'good vs. good.'"

9. "True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

10. "Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."

11. "Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."

12. "The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."

13. "There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth."

14. "In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

15. "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed."

16. "The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life."

17. "One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken."

18. "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."

19. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."

20. "Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."

21. "There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent."

22. "A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction."

23. "There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way."

24. "To get rid of an enemy one must love him."

25. "The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience, not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life."

26. "All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."

27. "A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral."

28. "My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat."

29. "Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love."

30. "Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts."