Leo Tolstoy

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

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
― Leo Tolstoy

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
― Leo Tolstoy

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina