1,507 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Good fiction doesn’t come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people – that’s in your hands.

When joy disappears, look for your mistake.

One must put oneself in every one’s position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

The true meaning of Christ’s teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone’s will and the execution of that will by others.

I must have physical exercise, or my temper’ll certainly be ruined.

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man’s course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.