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.”

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

“Boredom: the desire for desires.”

“...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.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

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.

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.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

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

Boredom: the desire for desires.

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

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

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

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

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

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

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.

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

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 greatest knowledge is self-knowledge.

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

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.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

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.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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

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?

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.