Leo Tolstoy

"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."

- Leo Tolstoy

"All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love."

- Leo Tolstoy

"We are asleep until we fall in love!"

- Leo Tolstoy

"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

"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer a great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."

- Leo Tolstoy

"When you love someone, you love the whole person as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be."

- Leo Tolstoy

""All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."—Leo Tolstoy"

- Leo Tolstoy

"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility."

- Leo Tolstoy

"When you love someone, you love the person as they are, not as you’d like them to be."

- Leo Tolstoy

"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."

- Leo Tolstoy

"One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees."

- Leo Tolstoy

"While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us."

- Leo Tolstoy

"We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing [themself]."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation."

- Leo Tolstoy

"If you want to be happy, be."

- Leo Tolstoy

"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken."

- Leo Tolstoy

"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience, not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

- Leo Tolstoy

"The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Leo Tolstoy

"Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts."

- Leo Tolstoy

"He imposes the cross. He also gives the strength"

- Leo Tolstoy

"Spring is the time of plans and projects."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

- Leo Tolstoy

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

- Leo Tolstoy

""Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.""

- Leo Tolstoy

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

- Leo Tolstoy

"It is dreadful that one cannot tear out the past by the roots. We cannot tear it out but we can hide the memory of it."

- Leo Tolstoy

"“It is dreadful that one cannot tear out the past by the roots. We cannot tear it out but we can hide the memory of it.”"

- Leo Tolstoy

"Spring is the time for plans and projects."

- Leo Tolstoy

"January is the time for plans and projects, a time to set the course of the year."

- Leo Tolstoy

"If you look for perfection, you will never be content."

- Leo Tolstoy

"The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher."

- Leo Tolstoy

"All we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom."

- Leo Tolstoy

"“All we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom.”"

- Leo Tolstoy

"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

"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience."

- Leo Tolstoy

"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility."

- Leo Tolstoy

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

- Leo Tolstoy

"It seems to me that what we call beauty in a face lies in the smile."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

- Leo Tolstoy

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence."

- Leo Tolstoy

"The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered."

- Leo Tolstoy

"If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Give me faith, Lord, and let me help others find it."

- 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

"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."

- Leo Tolstoy

"To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral."

- Leo Tolstoy