Quotes from Leo Tolstoy

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

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.

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.

Love those you hate you.

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

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