Leo Tolstoy

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

Leo Tolstoy

It is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

Leo Tolstoy

It is not beauty that endears, it’s love that makes us see beauty.

Leo Tolstoy

It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.

Leo Tolstoy

It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Leo Tolstoy

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory.

Leo Tolstoy

Life is too long to say anything definitely; always say perhaps.

Leo Tolstoy

Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.

Leo Tolstoy

Love those that hate you, but to love those one hates is impossible.

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Leo Tolstoy