Inspirational Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is in your ability to love others.

— Leo Tolstoy

When joy disappears, look for your mistake

— Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, be happy.

— Leo Tolstoy

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

— Leo Tolstoy

There are as many loves as there are hearts.

— Leo Tolstoy

Only those live who do good.

— Leo Tolstoy

Is it possible to say what one really feels?

— Leo Tolstoy

I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.

— Leo Tolstoy

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

— Leo Tolstoy

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

— Leo Tolstoy

... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

— Leo Tolstoy

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

— Leo Tolstoy

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

— Leo Tolstoy

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

— Leo Tolstoy

The most important person is the one you are with in this moment.

— Leo Tolstoy

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget...

— Leo Tolstoy

Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do…

— Leo Tolstoy

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

— Leo Tolstoy

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

— Leo Tolstoy

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the…

— Leo Tolstoy

Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

— Leo Tolstoy

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

— Leo Tolstoy

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they…

— Leo Tolstoy

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper...there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies…

— Leo Tolstoy

We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not…

— Leo Tolstoy

People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important…

— Leo Tolstoy

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them…

— Leo Tolstoy

If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and…

— Leo Tolstoy

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we…

— Leo Tolstoy

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

— Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, just be.

— Leo Tolstoy

Read less, study less, but think more

— Leo Tolstoy

There's a way out of every situation.

— Leo Tolstoy

Music is love in search of a voice.

— Leo Tolstoy

Energy is based on love.

— Leo Tolstoy

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

— Leo Tolstoy

Commit no act that is contrary to love.

— Leo Tolstoy