Leo Tolstoy Be Quotations

If you want to be happy, be.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

If you want to be happy, be happy.

If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

If you want to be happy, just be.

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.

To speak of it would be giving importance to something that has none.