“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.”

— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (1869), Book IV, Ch. 11

About Leo Tolstoy

1828 – 1910

Russian novelist and moral philosopher, author of 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina'.

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.”

“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”

“Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”

“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”

“Something the heart must have to cherish, must love and joy and sorrow learn.”

“Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.”

“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of grief!”

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”