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

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves.

Source: Leo Tolstoy, “Three Methods Of Reform” in Pamphlets : Translated from the Russian (1900) as translated by Aylmer Maude, page: 29.

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Happiness Is In Your Ability To Love Others.

To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one’s sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

Source: War and Peace (1865–1869) by Leo Tolstoy; Book XIV, chapter 15.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

Source: War and Peace (1865–1869) by Leo Tolstoy; Book. IX, chapter 10.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

Source: War and Peace (1865–1869) by Leo Tolstoy; Book. X, chapter 16.