To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOYTo tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOYWhen you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYIt’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
LEO TOLSTOYHe was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
LEO TOLSTOYIf everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
LEO TOLSTOYTo get rid of an enemy one must love him.
LEO TOLSTOYMy principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
LEO TOLSTOYThe best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
LEO TOLSTOYI always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYLet us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
LEO TOLSTOYDebates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
LEO TOLSTOYIn the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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 TOLSTOYAll great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
LEO TOLSTOYA battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
LEO TOLSTOY