Leo Tolstoy

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

Leo Tolstoy 

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

Leo Tolstoy 

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

Leo Tolstoy 

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. 

Leo Tolstoy 

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

Leo Tolstoy 

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. 

Leo Tolstoy

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. 

Leo Tolstoy 

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

Leo Tolstoy 

Boredom: the desire for desires. 

Leo Tolstoy 

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

Leo Tolstoy