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Tolstoy Leo QUOTES

  • If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

  • Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

  • If you want to be happy, be.

  • 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.



  • It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

  • 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.

  • All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

  • 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.

  • There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

  • Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

  • In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

  • Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

  • Music is the shorthand of emotion.

  • The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

  • Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

  • We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

  • True life is lived when tiny changes occur.


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