I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment. Leo Tolstoy More Quotes by Leo Tolstoy More Quotes From Leo Tolstoy Energy is based on love. Leo Tolstoy energy Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. Leo Tolstoy sadsorrowjoy Each time of life has its own kind of love. Leo Tolstoy kindhappinesslife How can one be well...when one suffers morally? Leo Tolstoy moralitywellssuffering War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. Leo Tolstoy voicetryingwar Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up. Leo Tolstoy wake-upcreepydream It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create. Leo Tolstoy inspirationfaithadd Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, Leo Tolstoy matesdoeneeds There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy our-worldmenthinking They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox. Leo Tolstoy smallpoxought In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it. Leo Tolstoy powermenorder Spring is the time of plans and projects. Leo Tolstoy springtimeprojectsspring We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us. Leo Tolstoy epic-poemsrutsusual We lost because we told ourselves we lost. Leo Tolstoy attitudepositiveinspirational As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields. Leo Tolstoy slaughterhouselong It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. Leo Tolstoy beautifulbeautylife In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions. Leo Tolstoy first-impressionadvicefirsts Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them. Leo Tolstoy menmeanart When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed. Leo Tolstoy greatnesshumanitymen If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. Leo Tolstoy convictionwould-bewar
