Leo Tolstoy: Trending quotes (page 11)

“There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.”

“Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.”

“We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.”

“There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.”

“When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!”

“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”

“One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.”

“There are as many kinds of love, as there are hearts”

“The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.”

“He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly”

“If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.”

“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees…”

“A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.”

“I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.”

“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”

“the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"… p982”

“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling.”

“For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.”

“Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!”