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Leo Tolstoy

  

Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) was a greatest Russian writer, the author of War and Peace and Anna Kerenina. His ideas on nonviolent resistance to evil had a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

 

Leo Tolstoy quotes

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

 

 
   

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

  

Strive to Make the World Better

  

 
 

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

  

Global Citizen

  

 
 

One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.

  

Planet of Loving Creators

  

 
 

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

  

How To Build Strong Loving Relationships

  

 
 

I don't have everything I love, but I love everything I have.

  

All-Inclusive Love

  

 
 

The Kingdom of God is within you.

  

Life is God

  

 
 

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

  

Love All People

  

 
 

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

  

Enlightenment

  

 
 

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

  

Truth vs. Lies

  

 
 

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

  

Mindfulness

  

 
 

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

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

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

  

 

 
 

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

 

 
Leo Tolstoy quotes

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

 

   

 

Mahatma Gandhi about Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

Ernest Hemingway about Leo Tolstoy

"I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I’ve fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody’s going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I’m crazy or I keep getting better."