Leo Tolstoy quotes
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
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Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
