If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
LEO TOLSTOYIf it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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 TOLSTOYLove those you hate you.
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 TOLSTOYTruth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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 TOLSTOYEach person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
LEO TOLSTOYWhat a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYLove. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
LEO TOLSTOYTo tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOYFaith is the force of life.
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 TOLSTOYAll the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
LEO TOLSTOYWhich is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
LEO TOLSTOYTrue life is lived when tiny changes occur.
LEO TOLSTOYIt is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
LEO TOLSTOY