Leo Tolstoy Life Quotations

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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

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.

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

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

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 love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me.

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

Each time of life has its own kind of love.

The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

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

As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence - as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual.

What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine navigation and aerial navigation, nor powerful explosives, nor all sorts of conveniences to add to the enjoyment of the rich, ruling classes... but one thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth ...that for our life one law is valid - the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind.

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

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

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

Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

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.