Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
LEO TOLSTOYMan cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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 TOLSTOYTo tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOYLet the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
LEO TOLSTOYWithout this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
LEO TOLSTOYThe more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
LEO TOLSTOYKings are the slaves of history.
LEO TOLSTOYWhat counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
LEO TOLSTOYEveryone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
LEO TOLSTOYLove alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOYA battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
LEO TOLSTOYWhich is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
LEO TOLSTOYReal wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
LEO TOLSTOYWe are asleep until we fall in Love!
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 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