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

— Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness (1859), Part 1

About Leo Tolstoy

1828 – 1910

Russian novelist and moral philosopher, author of 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina'.

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.”

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

“Human happiness consists in living according to reason.”

“The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.”

“We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”

“Let us be content to live in the mind.”

“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant.”