Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy; 9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 August 1828
CountryRussian Federation
inspirational intelligent men
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
love-you
It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
empowering pursuit humankind
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.
relationship marriage wedding
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
inspirational life happiness
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.
inspirational change happiness
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
world want changing-the-world
Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.
arrogant-person perfect arrogance
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.
charity bread pieces
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
lying men thinking
The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.
families family happy unhappy
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
drive flies fly glass second third wee
The first glass you drive in like a stake, the second flies like a crake, and after the third they fly like wee little birds.