Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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

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  Topics in Life

• And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death–but it’s more peaceful.

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  Topics in Life

• To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Religion

• Well, pray if you like, only you’d do better to use your judgment.

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  Topics in Religion

• Without the support from religion–remember, we talked about it–no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Religion

• If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Religion

• It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

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  Topics in God

• Life did not stop, and one had to live.

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  Topics in Inspirational

• He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

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  Topics in God, Life

• God is the same everywhere.

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  Topics in God

• The business of art lies just in this, — to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

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  Topics in Art

• 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

• They’ve got no idea what happiness is, they don’t know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us–there is no life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Happiness

• Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Giving

• Love those you hate you.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Love

• To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Art

• God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling…

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  Topics in Death

• To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Truth

Leo Tolstoy (101)

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

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