It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
LEO TOLSTOYIt is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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 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 TOLSTOYGreat achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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 TOLSTOYTruth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
LEO TOLSTOYIf we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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 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 TOLSTOYWhen you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYIt is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness is in your ability to love others.
LEO TOLSTOYLife did not stop, and one had to live.
LEO TOLSTOY