All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
LEO TOLSTOYAll happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
LEO TOLSTOYIf we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
LEO TOLSTOYThe only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
LEO TOLSTOYRespect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
LEO TOLSTOYEveryone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
LEO TOLSTOYWhat a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYDon’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
LEO TOLSTOYIn the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
LEO TOLSTOYThe law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
LEO TOLSTOYHuman science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
LEO TOLSTOYMy principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
LEO TOLSTOYWhen you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYWithout this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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 TOLSTOYThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
LEO TOLSTOYHistorians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
LEO TOLSTOY