Leo Tolstoy

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

"Truth stands outside the individual."

"Our bodies are gardens to which our wills are gardeners."

"Art, in its broadest definition, is an expansion of the living being."

"Mysticism and occultism are for those with weak intellect."

"The secret of happiness is that it is not happiness you are seeking."

"A man is his own most constant companion."

"We are taught to believe that the most terrible thing is to be forgotten."

"The freedom of all is essential to my freedom."

"Belief in God is a feeling, but not a feeling which forms the foundation of religion."

"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."

"Fretting about overpopulation, wasteful consumption, and what we are leaving for future generations."

"Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire."

"Woman is the salvation or the ruin of the family."

"All the variety, all the charm, and all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."

"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."

"It is not as bad as you think. It will seem better tomorrow."

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

"Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, better than the ascendance of the desire to serve."

"Art is the activity by which man, having experienced an emotion, intentionally transmits it to others."

"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes."

"We are asleep until we fall in love."

"War is an admission of defeat in the face of reason."

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread."

"The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"One can live in a city forever and always feel a stranger; one can live in a village a few weeks and feel at home."

"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."

"How do you know that I am not now in one of my dreams?"

"God is within all men, but all men are not within God."