I’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 TOLSTOYHe stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
-
-
Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
LEO TOLSTOY -
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
LEO TOLSTOY -
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
LEO TOLSTOY -
It’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 TOLSTOY -
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
LEO TOLSTOY -
He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
LEO TOLSTOY -
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
LEO TOLSTOY -
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
LEO TOLSTOY -
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
LEO TOLSTOY -
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
LEO TOLSTOY -
If you want to be happy, be.
LEO TOLSTOY -
Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
LEO TOLSTOY -
God is the same everywhere.
LEO TOLSTOY -
I 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 TOLSTOY -
Don’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 TOLSTOY