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  • #1
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #2
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #3
    Leo Tolstoy
    “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, Anna Karenina

  • #4
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #5
    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

  • #6
    Leo Tolstoy
    “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

  • #7
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

  • #8
    Leo Tolstoy
    “When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #9
    Leo Tolstoy
    “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...”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #10
    Leo Tolstoy
    “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #11
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
    Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

  • #12
    Leo Tolstoy
    “The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

  • #13
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: war

  • #14
    Leo Tolstoy
    “A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #15
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Boredom: the desire for desires.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #16
    Leo Tolstoy
    “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

  • #17
    Leo Tolstoy
    “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #18
    Leo Tolstoy
    “it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #19
    Leo Tolstoy
    “The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #20
    Leo Tolstoy
    “It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

  • #21
    Leo Tolstoy
    “But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #22
    Leo Tolstoy
    “But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #23
    Leo Tolstoy
    “True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #24
    Leo Tolstoy
    “It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #25
    Leo Tolstoy
    “What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #26
    Leo Tolstoy
    “We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: love

  • #27
    “Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?”
    Mary Manin Morrissey

  • #28
    “When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.”
    Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Dairy Queen



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