Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Life
-
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
→ -
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
→ -
To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
→ -
If you want to be happy, be.
→ -
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
→ -
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.
→ -
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
→ -
Each time of life has its own kind of love.
→ -
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.
→ -
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
→ -
We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
→ -
One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.
→ -
There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
→ -
God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.
→ -
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
→ -
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.
→ -
As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence - as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual.
→ -
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
→ -
Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.
→ -
I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.
→ -
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
→ -
The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before.
→ -
My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me.
→ -
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts" "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
→ -
When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.
→ -
What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine navigation and aerial navigation, nor powerful explosives, nor all sorts of conveniences to add to the enjoyment of the rich, ruling classes... but one thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth ...that for our life one law is valid - the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind.
→ -
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.
→ -
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
→ -
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
→ -
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
→
Related Authors
-
Mark Twain Author -
Nikolai Gogol Dramatist -
Gustave Flaubert Writer -
William Shakespeare Poet -
Franz Kafka Writer -
Charles Dickens Writer -
Anton Chekhov Physician -
Sophia Tolstaya Diarist -
Ivan Turgenev Novelist -
Ernest Hemingway Author -
Victor Hugo Poet -
Vladimir Nabokov Novelist -
Boris Pasternak Poet -
Maxim Gorky Writer -
Alexander Pushkin Author -
Jack London Author -
Henry David Thoreau Author -
Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist -
Honore de Balzac Novelist -
Mikhail Lermontov Writer