Famous Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”

“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”

“Love those you hate you.”

“I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”

“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”

“If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”

“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”

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

“Life did not stop, and one had to live.”

“And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.”

“Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.”

“God is the same everywhere.”

“Boredom: the desire for desires.”

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”

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

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

The greatest stories are not the ones that end happily, but the ones that endure.

It is better to know several basic rules of life than to study many unnecessary sciences.

Live your life in such a way that you neither hide nor have a wish to display your life to people.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Kindness is the major quality of the soul. If a person is not kind, it is because he was subjected to some lie, passion, or temptation which violated his natural state.

The best and the most important object for every person is his inner self, his spiritual being.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

The greatest knowledge is self-knowledge.

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

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.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

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.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

He who always listens to what other people say about him will never find inner peace.

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

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

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

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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

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

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

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

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

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

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

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 lost because we told ourselves we lost.

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