Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

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.

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...

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.

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.

-Why are you so sad?
- Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.

I think... 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.

Love those you hate you.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.