Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
LEO TOLSTOYSometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
LEO TOLSTOYI’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
LEO TOLSTOYMy principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
LEO TOLSTOYThe more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
LEO TOLSTOYLove those you hate you.
LEO TOLSTOYHistorians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
LEO TOLSTOYThe law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
LEO TOLSTOYSeize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
LEO TOLSTOYWhatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
LEO TOLSTOYWe can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOYThe more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
LEO TOLSTOYTrue life is lived when tiny changes occur.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness is in your ability to love others.
LEO TOLSTOYWhich is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
LEO TOLSTOYA man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
LEO TOLSTOY