Leo Tolstoy
299 quotes
Biography
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."
"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
"I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."
"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."
"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."
"He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking."
"If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."
"We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom."
"If you want to be happy, be."
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
"Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed."
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness."
"Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}"
"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."
"I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be."
"Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it."
"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad"but "good vs. good."
"They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life."
"If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace."
"It's hard to love a woman and do anything."
"Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy."
"You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love."
"The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness..."