Leo Tolstoy quotes - page 16

...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything. (Leo Tolstoy)
Energy is based on love. View quote
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I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love. View quote
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. View quote
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The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience. View quote
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"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God. View quote
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There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil. View quote
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Where there is love, there is God also. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. View quote
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There are as many loves as there are hearts. (Leo Tolstoy)
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees. View quote
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Only those live who do good. View quote
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There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before. View quote
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There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it. View quote
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When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation. View quote
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I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky. View quote
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Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom. View quote
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Philadelphia I am not for Russian nor Japanese governments, but for deceived labouring people of both country, obliged to fight against their welfare, conscience and religion. Tolstoy 1904. Февраля 9/22. View quote
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Martin's soul grew very very glad. View quote
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And the angel's body was bared, and he was clothed in light so that eye could not look on him; and his voice grew louder, as though it came not from him but from heaven above. (Leo Tolstoy)
How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of animals. View quote
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep. View quote
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I can't praise a young lady who is alive only when people are admiring her, but as soon as she is left alone, collapses and finds nothing to her taste--one who is all for show and has no resources in herself. View quote
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It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome. View quote
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