Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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.

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?

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

He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.

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

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

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

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.

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.

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

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

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget...