Leo Tolstoy, Война и мир Quotes
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy
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.
Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.
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
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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.
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.
Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.
You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!
The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.
If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.