Leo Tolstoy Love Quotations

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

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

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

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.

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

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.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things, not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe

The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes - love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.

Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

Commit no act that is contrary to love.

To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

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

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

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.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.