My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
LEO TOLSTOYMy principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
LEO TOLSTOYAll the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
LEO TOLSTOYGreat achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
LEO TOLSTOYThere is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything I know, I know because of love.
LEO TOLSTOYWe are asleep until we fall in Love!
LEO TOLSTOYMy piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
LEO TOLSTOYThe best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
LEO TOLSTOYIt’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
LEO TOLSTOYLove alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOYEveryone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
LEO TOLSTOYTo get rid of an enemy one must love him.
LEO TOLSTOYBe bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
LEO TOLSTOYIf we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
LEO TOLSTOYHuman science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
LEO TOLSTOYIt’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
LEO TOLSTOY