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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 2

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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

Peace, Morning, Sleep

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Relationship, Marriage, Wedding

If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

Order, People, Want

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

Love, Beauty, Love You

Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Amy Mandelker (2010). “War and Peace”, p.1241, Oxford University Press

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Intelligent, Men, Changing Your Life

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.15, Vintage

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

Inspirational, Inspiring, Truth

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1071, Vintage

The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.

Kindness, Intelligent, Mysterious Things

Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

Clothes, Wit, Meetings

I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.

Reading, Circles, People

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

Happiness is in your ability to love others.

Happiness, Inspirational Life, Bad Day

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

Kindness, Thoughtful, People

"A Calendar of Wisdom".

...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.574, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

Helping Others, Meaning Of Life, Helping

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

Men, Law, Suffering

Harvey Carr, George Williams Peckham, Mrs. Elizabeth (Gifford) Peckham, John Knight Munro Berry, William Warner Bishop (1887). “Pamphlets in philology and the humanities”

Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

Unhappiness, Unsaid, Left

Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night and for the winter time, but do not prepare for death. We must prepare for death. But there is only one way to prepare for death - and that is to live well.

Summer, Winter, Night

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Inspirational, Meaning Of Life, Intellect

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

Love, Positive, Happiness

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

Inspirational, Intelligent, Men

graf Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett, David Taffel (2005). “The Kingdom of God is Within You: Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion But as a New Theory of Life”, p.45, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

War, Government, Common Sense

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

Inspirational, Making A Difference, Bread

graf Leo Tolstoy (1911). “What Tolstoy Taught”

Music is love in search of a voice.

Music, Voice, Music Is

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.

Empowering, Pursuit, Humankind

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

Clever, People, Trying

"Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 210, 1909.

Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.

Secret, Doe, Messengers

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