Leo Tolstoy: Trending quotes (page 7)

“But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?”

“The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness…”

“It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.”

“Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.”

“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”

“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”

“But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.”

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

“I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.”

“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”

“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”

“Love those you hate you.”

“He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.”

“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”

“Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.”

“I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”

“Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget…”

“Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it."

- Vronksy {Anna Karenina}”