Leo Tolstoy quotes

Never listen to people who speak badly of others and good of you. (Leo Tolstoy)
Without love living is easy; but it's meaningless.
Leo Tolstoy
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Leo Tolstoy
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
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.
Leo Tolstoy
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.
Leo Tolstoy
If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
Leo Tolstoy
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Leo Tolstoy
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. (Leo Tolstoy)
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy
Love hinders death. 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.
Leo Tolstoy
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
Leo Tolstoy
Spring is the time of plans and projects.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Leo Tolstoy
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is pleasure without regret. (Leo Tolstoy)
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy
But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?
Leo Tolstoy
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.
Leo Tolstoy
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
Leo Tolstoy