Leo Tolstoy's quote

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, pronounced  ( listen); known in the Anglosphere as Leo Tolstoy) (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. The Kreutzer Sonata
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Anna Karenina
If you want to be happy, be.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content. Anna Karenina
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. Anna Karenina
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. War and Peace
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. War and Peace
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women. War and Peace
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. Anna Karenina
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness…
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels? Anna Karenina
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. Anna Karenina
Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. Anna Karenina
I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children perhaps. — What more can the heart of a man desire? Family Happiness and Other Stories
The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good."
Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver! Anna Karenina
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it. A Confession
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life. Anna Karenina
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Anything is better than lies and deceit! Anna Karenina
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know. Anna Karenina
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. War and Peace
The 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... War and Peace
It's hard to love a woman and do anything. Anna Karenina
I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible....except by getting off his back.
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
Music is the shorthand of emotion
Seize 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.
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience. War and Peace
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Love those you hate you. Anna Karenina
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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. War and Peace
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it. Anna Karenina
Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up. Anna Karenina
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. War and Peace
We are asleep until we fall in Love! War and Peace