Leo Tolstoy

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

Leo Tolstoy

Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?

Leo Tolstoy

A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

Leo Tolstoy

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

Leo Tolstoy

A holy spirit lives within you.

Leo Tolstoy

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

Leo Tolstoy

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

Leo Tolstoy

A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.

Leo Tolstoy

A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives.

Leo Tolstoy

A wife’s a worry, a non-wife’s even worse.

Leo Tolstoy