Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
LEO TOLSTOYWithout this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
LEO TOLSTOYMy piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
LEO TOLSTOYOne must be cunning and wicked in this world.
LEO TOLSTOYHistorians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness is in your ability to love others.
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 TOLSTOYArt lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
LEO TOLSTOYLove is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
LEO TOLSTOYBoredom: the desire for desires.
LEO TOLSTOYMy principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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 TOLSTOYEach person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
LEO TOLSTOYWhich is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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 TOLSTOYHappiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
LEO TOLSTOYHuman science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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