Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night and for the winter time, but do not prepare for death. We must prepare for death. But there is only one way to prepare for death - and that is to live well.

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  Summer, Winter, Night

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

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  Honesty, Business, Integrity

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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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• 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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• If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

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  Jobs, Attitude, Work

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• The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

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  Inspirational, Intelligent, Men

  graf Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett, David Taffel (2005). “The Kingdom of God is Within You: Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion But as a New Theory of Life”, p.45, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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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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• Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

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  Happiness, You Make Me Happy, Vacation

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• People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

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  Clever, People, Trying

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 210, 1909.

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• The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

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  Important, Way, Guides

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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