Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
LEO TOLSTOYPure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
LEO TOLSTOYThere is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
LEO TOLSTOYThe more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
LEO TOLSTOYLove is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
LEO TOLSTOYHe was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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 TOLSTOYThe only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
LEO TOLSTOYI often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
LEO TOLSTOYSpring is the time of plans and projects.
LEO TOLSTOYThe law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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 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 TOLSTOYIf you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
LEO TOLSTOYMusic is the shorthand of emotion.
LEO TOLSTOYRespect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
LEO TOLSTOY