Leo Tolstoy

There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.

Leo Tolstoy

There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

Leo Tolstoy

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

Leo Tolstoy

There’s a way out of every situation.

Leo Tolstoy

To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one’s sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Leo Tolstoy

To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

Leo Tolstoy

To speak of it would be giving importance to something that has none.

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

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

Leo Tolstoy