Leo Tolstoy

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

"Boredom: the desire for desires."

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

"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."

"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began."

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad"but "good vs. good."

"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."

"Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere."

"People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days,"imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days"and that human nature changes with the times."

"A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul."

"I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love."

"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad"but "good vs. good."

"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad"but "good vs. good."

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

"truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here."

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

"Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness"