Leo Tolstoy Quotes

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life.

The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

Life will find a way.

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words , “This too shall pass.”

It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This cancer can't defeat me." "No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny."

I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.

The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

it's amazing what you can get used to.

Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. Hold your friends close. Gather your strength. Gain wisdom and beautiful stories. Be brave, and you'll have the time of your life.

Habit is the strongest thing in life.

Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.