leo tolstoy
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Nov 13 2012
– Leo Tolstoy, a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.