Leo Tolstoy Quotes

• God gave the day, God gave the strength.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in God
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  If you want to be happy, be.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Inspirational, Motivational

  Tags in Happiness, Want, Happy
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  All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Understanding, Everything
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  Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself…

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Change
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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.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Happiness, Reality

• Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their lives as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• What is called science today consists of a haphazard heap of information, united by nothing, often utterly unnecessary, and not only failing to present one unquestionable truth, but as often as not containing the grossest errors today put forward as truths, and tomorrow overthrown.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyse it by encumbering it with remedies.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• If everyone fought only for his own convictions, there would be no wars.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War
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  As long as there are slaughterhouses… there will be battlefields.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Long

• All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War

• We are asleep until we fall in Love!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Love

• What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War

• Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science

• I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Love

• It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Love

• Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Love

• The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness…

  Leo Tolstoy

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Happiness, Conditions

Leo Tolstoy (101)

Birth:	9th September, 1928
Death:	20th November, 1910
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Playwriter, Writer

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