I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
Leo TolstoyThere can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.
Leo TolstoyWhen you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Leo TolstoyHappiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
Leo TolstoyThere are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.
Leo Tolstoy