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.
LEO TOLSTOYOnly 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.
LEO TOLSTOYEvery heart has its own skeletons.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
LEO TOLSTOYSpring is the time of plans and projects.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
LEO TOLSTOYThe law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
LEO TOLSTOYEvery lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
LEO TOLSTOYBe bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness is in your ability to love others.
LEO TOLSTOYGreat achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
LEO TOLSTOYAll great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
LEO TOLSTOYIf we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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 TOLSTOYHe 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.
LEO TOLSTOYMy principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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