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#1

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

12559 likes

#2

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: perfection

5739 likes

#3

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom

5512 likes

#4

“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.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

tags: advice-for-writers, awareness, life

2734 likes

#5

“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

tags: grief, inspirational

2852 likes

#6

“If you want to be happy, be.”
― Leo Tolstory

tags: inspirational

2476 likes

#7

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom

3567 likes

#8

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy

1792 likes

#9

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
― Leo Tolstoy

1466 likes

#10

“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.”
― Leo Tolstoy

969 likes

#11

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: deceit, honesty, lies, lying

1138 likes

#12

“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: kindlehighlight

1379 likes

#13

“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

636 likes

#14

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong

1603 likes

#15

“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
― Leo Tolstoy

510 likes

#16

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: goodness, simplicity, truth

1051 likes

#17

“To get rid of an enemy one must love him. ”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#18

“Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.”
― Leo Tolstoy

316 likes

#19

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: being-loved, happiness, inspirational, philosophy

499 likes

#20

“Music is the shorthand of emotion”
― Leo Tolstoy

231 likes

#21

“I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible… except by getting off his back.”
― Leo Tolstoy, What Then Must We Do?

tags: exploitation, greed, privilege

262 likes

#22

“I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: evil, live

442 likes

#23

“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: love

522 likes

#24

“I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: leo-tolstoy

155 likes

#25

“God is the same everywhere.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: god

208 likes

#26

“Everything depends on upbringing. ”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: parenting, upbringing

220 likes

#27

“The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.”
― Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?

tags: argument, art

118 likes

#28

“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#29

“One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.”
― Leo Tolstoy

77 likes

#30

“A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: inspirational

102 likes