black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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 Tolstoy

Happiness is in your ability to love others.
LEO TOLSTOY

Ability Happiness Love One Liner
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
LEO TOLSTOY

Complain Fate Life
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
LEO TOLSTOY

Conviction Fight War
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
LEO TOLSTOY

Complete Impossible Joy Pure Sorrow
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 TOLSTOY

Clothes Food Giving Man Shame Strave Unhappy
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
LEO TOLSTOY

Examine Fragment Human Kill Science Understand
Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
LEO TOLSTOY

Conceal Debate Reveal Solitude Truth
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
LEO TOLSTOY

Life Love Understand
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
LEO TOLSTOY

Absolute Attain Knowledge Life Man
If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
LEO TOLSTOY

Head Heart Kind Love Mind True
A 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 TOLSTOY

Endurance Goals Himself Man Sleep Walk War
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
LEO TOLSTOY

Divine Enemy Human Love Person
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
LEO TOLSTOY

Belong Bread Eat Life Pieces Share Starve
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
LEO TOLSTOY

Philosophy Practice Principle Produce Volume Writing
He 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.
LEO TOLSTOY

Couple Romantic Sun
Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
LEO TOLSTOY

Book Happiness Ideas Music Nature Rest

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Leo Tolstoy Quotes