Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

“The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views can be reconciled with their profession. But being by nature a kind and intelligent man, he soon ...”

“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.”

“But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.”

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”

“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”

“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”

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

“They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.”

“If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”

“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...”

“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.”

“Love those you hate you.”

“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”

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

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

“Everything I know, I know because of love.”

“I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.”

“I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do g...”

“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”