Leo Tolstoy

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

If you want to be happy, be.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.