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Leo Tolstoy Quotes about Life

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

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

Love, Life, Reality

Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Amy Mandelker (2010). “War and Peace”, p.355, Oxford University Press

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

Love, Life, Marriage

Leo Tolstoy (2014). “War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman”, p.1512, Simon and Schuster

If you want to be happy, be.

Life, Birthday, Happiness

"Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 352, 2006.

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.

Love, Life, Mean

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace: plus free audiobook”, p.1098, Wizio Publishing

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

Life, Perfect, Looks

Leo Tolstoy, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Leo Tolstoy Quotes... Vol. 5: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Leo Tolstoy”

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Inspirational, Life, Humanity

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You”, p.269, Xist Publishing

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Inspirational, Life, Way

"Anna Karenina".

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.348, Vintage

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Life, Motivational, Patience

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1961). “War and peace”

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

Life, Reason, Possibility

"War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman".

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Life, Change, Deep Thought

graf Leo Tolstoy (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”

Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.

Life, Christian, People

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

Life, Beauty, Beautiful

'The Kreutzer Sonata' 5 (translated by Maude)

To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

Life, Blessed, Suffering

"War and Peace". Novel by Leo Tolstoy. Book 14, Chapter 15, 1867.

I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.

Life, Courage, Two

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

Love, Life, Marriage

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.415, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence - as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual.

Life, Heart, Men

Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc

God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

Inspirational, Life, God

Entry in Tolstoy's Diary, www.linguadex.com. November 01, 1910.

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Life, Men, Names

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...”, p.351, e-artnow

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.

Life, Death, Animal

Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.42, Lulu Press, Inc

One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.

Love, Life, World

Each time of life has its own kind of love.

Life, Happiness, Kind

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Family Happiness and Other Stories”, p.64, Courier Corporation

Only those live who do good.

Life

graf Leo Tolstoy (1887). “My Confession: And, The Spirit of Christ's Teaching”, New York, T. Y. Crowell [c1887]

My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me.

Life, Real, Sleep

Leo Tolstoy (2013). “The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession”, p.215, W. W. Norton & Company

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