Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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.

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  Love, Life, Mean

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace: plus free audiobook”, p.1098, Wizio Publishing

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

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  Love, Life, Marriage

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman”, p.1512, Simon and Schuster

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• ...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

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  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.574, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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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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• I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

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  Believe, Ignorance, Carpe Diem

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• Act as if you are, and you will become such.

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  Inspiring, Graduation, Ifs

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• Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

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  Inspirational, Mind, Hiding

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

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  Men, Law, Suffering

  Harvey Carr, George Williams Peckham, Mrs. Elizabeth (Gifford) Peckham, John Knight Munro Berry, William Warner Bishop (1887). “Pamphlets in philology and the humanities”

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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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• All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

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  Writing, Journey, Men

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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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• 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

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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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• 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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• An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

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  Arrogant Person, Perfect, Arrogance

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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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