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Time Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

122 Time quotes by Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy shows how tiny joys can slip by like gold hidden in sand, yet strong feelings can strike like a sudden blow. He writes that death confronts us with an unstoppable force and that love can deepen when it arrives and leaves at once. His words also note how happiness and unhappiness sit side by side.

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The most important time is Now

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“Time and Patience.”

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Spring is the time of plans and projects.

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

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

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“My life seemed so wretched, the future so hopeless, the past so black!”

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“It is dreadful that one cannot tear the past out by the roots.”

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The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

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...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

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“Besides, to fall out of love and in love at the same time is to love twice as deeply as one did…

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“Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.”

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We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different…

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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

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“For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.”

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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they…

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If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found…

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Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in…

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“The faces of these young people, especially those who were militarymen, bore that expression of condescending respect for their elders which seems…

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“At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over him, or what was said of him; he was…

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“A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there…

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“At times he would become so absorbed in reading, that all the kerosene in the lamp would burn out, and still he…

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“Those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see nothing but…

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“Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that,…

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“Let others be afraid, but the soul is not afraid of anything. It lives according to its own laws. It is bigger…

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Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all…

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She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a…

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“Yet time and again, from different approaches, I kept coming to the same conclusion, that I could not have come into the…

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“Since the moment when, at the sigh of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions…

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If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.…

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“[...] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all…

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“It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when…

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“Although these words of hers confirmed in me my conviction that I was not handsome, they also confirmed in me an ambition…

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“Then as now much time was spent arguing about the rights of women, husband-and-wife relationships and freedom and rights within marriage, but…

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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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Each time of life has its own kind of love.

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Seize the moment of happiness... love and be loved.

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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

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I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.