Leo Tolstoy

I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I feel in myself a superabundance of energy which finds no outlet in our quiet life.

Leo Tolstoy

If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things.

Leo Tolstoy

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

Leo Tolstoy

If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.

Leo Tolstoy

If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

Leo Tolstoy

If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.

Leo Tolstoy

In a writer there must always be two people – the writer and the critic.

Leo Tolstoy

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

Leo Tolstoy

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Leo Tolstoy