Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.
Leo TolstoyKnowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory
Leo TolstoyHe felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320
Leo TolstoyFor us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Leo Tolstoy