Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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• Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Real, Learning, Things In Life

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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  A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

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  Math, Men, Thinking

  graf Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings”

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• Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

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  Majority, Doe, Changing Your Life

  "A Confession". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1882.

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• Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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  Inspiring, Moving On, Patience

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• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

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  If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

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  Happiness, Soul, Growth

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Love, Life, Reality

  Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Amy Mandelker (2010). “War and Peace”, p.355, Oxford University Press

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• Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

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  People, Honest, Force

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• If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

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  People, Trying, Want

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Wise Thoughts for Every Day: On God, Love, the Human Spirit, and Living a Good Life”, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• And where love ends, hate begins

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  Hate, Ends

  Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Anna Karenina”, p.2053, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

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  Life, Perfect, Looks

  Leo Tolstoy, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Leo Tolstoy Quotes... Vol. 5: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Leo Tolstoy”

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

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  Love, Marriage, Loving Someone

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  Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

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  Change, New Year, Journey

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1118, Vintage

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• When joy disappears, look for your mistake

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  Inspirational, Mistake, Joy

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

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  Inspirational, Heart, Light

  "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, translated by P. Sekirin, (November 26), 1997.

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• Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.

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  Honesty, Fear, Independent

  graf Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude (1934). “The Works of Leo Tolstoy ...: On life and essays on religion, tr. by Aylmer Maude”

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• Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

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  Inspirational, Time, Waiting

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, p.1123, Leo Tolstoy

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• What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

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  Relationship, Marriage, Wedding

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• There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

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  Heart, Dark, Men

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• The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

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  Purpose, Method, Purpose Of Education

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• Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

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  Unhappiness, Unsaid, Left

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• Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

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  Stupid, Mind, Important

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 209, 1909.

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• My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

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  Inspirational, Making A Difference, Bread

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1911). “What Tolstoy Taught”

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• Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

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  Wisdom, Ideas, People

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

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  Honesty, Business, Integrity

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