Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Leo Tolstoy (64)

Birth:	9th September, 1928
Death:	20th November, 1910
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Playwriter, Writer

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• God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling…

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Death

• To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Truth

• Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Death

• The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Stories

• I think… if it is true that
  there are as many minds as there
  are heads, then there are as many
  kinds of love as there are hearts.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Love

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Truth
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  If you want to be happy, be.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Inspirational, Motivational

  Tags in Want, Happy

• Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Love

  Tags in People

• Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Inspirational, Love

  Tags in People

• There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Truth
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  Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself…

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Change

• Boredom: the desire for desires.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Truth

• Music is the shorthand of emotion.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music

• In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

• There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acceptance
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  We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Degree, Human

• Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized
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  All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Happy, Resembles
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  Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness, Depend

• If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men