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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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  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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  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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

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  Unhappiness, Unsaid, Left

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

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  Book, Ideas

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

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  Inspirational, Trust, Spiritual

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• Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

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  War, Government, Common Sense

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

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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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• Happiness is in your ability to love others.

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  Happiness, Inspirational Life, Bad Day

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