Top 15 Leo Tolstoy Quotes

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

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...

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.

"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

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.

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