Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, be.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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