Selected quotes · 24
№ 01
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Leo TolstoyWisdom
№ 02
“If you want to be happy, be.”
Leo TolstoyHappiness
№ 03
“Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”
Leo TolstoyHappiness
№ 04
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo TolstoyHappiness
№ 05
“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
Leo TolstoyWisdom
№ 06
“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”
Leo TolstoyHappiness
№ 07
“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.”
Leo TolstoyAction
№ 08
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
Leo TolstoyHappiness
№ 09
“Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.”
Leo TolstoyFaith
№ 10
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Leo TolstoyCourage
№ 11
“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.”
Leo TolstoyCreativity
№ 12
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
Leo TolstoyJustice
№ 13
“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
Leo TolstoyGrowth
№ 14
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo TolstoyMindset
№ 15
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
Leo TolstoyTime
№ 16
“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
Leo TolstoyCreativity
№ 17
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
Leo TolstoyCreativity
№ 18
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
Leo TolstoyLife
№ 19
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
Leo TolstoyTime
№ 20
“When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.”
Leo TolstoyTime
№ 21
“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.”
Leo TolstoyLife
№ 22
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
Leo TolstoyFaith
№ 23
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
Leo TolstoyCreativity
№ 24
“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.”
Leo TolstoySelf-belief