"No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather A...
To love life is to love God.
More Leo Tolstoy quotes
"I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
"One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...
"I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really...
"Love them that hate you, but you can't love them whom you hate.
"And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.
"I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.
"In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had b...
"He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick an...
"He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
"How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she love...
"Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.
"Love them that hate you, but you can't love those you hate.
"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
"Love those you hate you.