Leo Tolstoy Born in Russia in September, 1828 is regarded as one of the greatest novelists of the 19th century. Leo Tolstoy wrote the acclaimed novels War and Peace, Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and still ranks among the world’s top writers. He received multiple nominations for Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906, and nominations for Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902 and 1910.
Here are some most famous Leo Tolstoy quotes.
"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
"If you want to be happy, be."
"All happy family resembles one another. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"Boredom; the desire for desires."
"One of the conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken."
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
"Without knowing what I'm and why I'm here, life is impossible."
"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 all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people."
"We lost because we told ourselves we lost."
"Truth like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
"All everything that I understand. I understand only because I love."
"If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts. So many kinds of love."
"We know only that we know nothing and that is the highest degree of human wisdom."
"If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I consider 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."
"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."
"Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women."
"When you love someone, you love the person as they are, not as you'd like them to be."
"Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me. Far more than you understand."
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