If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
LEO TOLSTOYLove alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOYIs it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
LEO TOLSTOYIt’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
LEO TOLSTOYDebates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
LEO TOLSTOYI often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
LEO TOLSTOYThe more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
LEO TOLSTOYThe only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
LEO TOLSTOYIn the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything I know, I know because of love.
LEO TOLSTOYLife did not stop, and one had to live.
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 TOLSTOYTo tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOYIt is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYSometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
LEO TOLSTOYEach person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
LEO TOLSTOY