Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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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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• 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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  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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• 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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  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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  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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• 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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• 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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• Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.

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  Believe, Believe In You, Knows

  Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Reginald Frank Christian (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”, Burns & Oates

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  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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• Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

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  Clothes, Wit, Meetings

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

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  Intelligent, Men, Changing Your Life

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.15, Vintage

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• The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

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  Atheist, Tragedy, World

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• What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

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  Knowing, Important, Quality

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

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  Helping Others, Meaning Of Life, Helping

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• Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

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  Change, Inspiring, Self Improvement

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• Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

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  Book, Ideas

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• The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

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  Inspirational, Meaning Of Life, Intellect

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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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