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 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 TOLSTOYWrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you want to be happy, be.
LEO TOLSTOYThe whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
LEO TOLSTOYA man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
LEO TOLSTOYA battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
LEO TOLSTOYIn the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
LEO TOLSTOYDebates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
LEO TOLSTOYLove alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOYLove. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
LEO TOLSTOYHistorians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
LEO TOLSTOYAll happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness is in your ability to love others.
LEO TOLSTOYYou can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
LEO TOLSTOY