Quotes from Leo Tolstoy

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

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

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.

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.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

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}

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

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.