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
people history happy-people
Happy people have no history.
graduation ifs
Act as if you are, and you will become such.
forgiveness forgiving position
One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.
change men may
It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.
time live-in-the-moment important
There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
God gave the day, God gave the strength.
here-i-am forget ends
Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.
heart sorrow matter
She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.
hate ends
And where love ends, hate begins
eye heart said
That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him
thinking think-of-you i-can
I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me
love life children
When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.
life blessed suffering
To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
appreciation art understanding
The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...