Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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

Happiness is that you have three things: something you do, something you love, and something you aspire to.

We are asleep until we fall in love.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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

Boredom: the desire for desires.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

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

I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor.

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

There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields.

We are asleep until we fall in love

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

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

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

If you want to be happy, be.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

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

There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.

Only those live who do good.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

But the peasants -- how do the peasants die?

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

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

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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.

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

The strongest of all warriors are these two

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

It is not beauty that endears; It's love that makes us see beauty

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.