Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
LEO TOLSTOYBe bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
LEO TOLSTOYIt’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
LEO TOLSTOYWhat counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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 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 TOLSTOYIn the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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 TOLSTOYIt is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYMy 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 TOLSTOYThe law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
LEO TOLSTOYRest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you want to be happy, be.
LEO TOLSTOYWhat a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYLove is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
LEO TOLSTOYPure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
LEO TOLSTOY