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Heart Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

42 Heart quotes by Leo Tolstoy

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A heart that reads another’s life feels uneasy about reflecting others’ stories. The quotes show that love can turn to hate after betrayal and that true law lives inside a kind heart. They also suggest that chasing happiness makes life feel cruel without a grateful heart.

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There are as many loves as there are hearts.

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Every heart has its own skeletons.

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Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

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Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take…

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“Now that Vronsky had deceived her, she was prepared to love Levin and to hate Vronsky.”

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She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he…

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“Now one often saw only her face and body, while her soul was not seen at all.”

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She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside…

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That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that…

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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she…

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Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great…

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Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would…

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The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of…

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“Anna Arkadyevna read and understood, but it was unpleasant for her to read, that is, to follow the reflection of other people’s…

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Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only…

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“...she still found no words in which she could express the complexity of her feelings; indeed, she could not even find thoughts…

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Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate…

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He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by…

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“What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with…

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The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon…

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Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only- then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what…

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“But it did not interest her at all. She and Levin had a conversation of there own, yet not a conversation but…

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But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him…

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The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship…

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All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating…

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These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that…

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Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he…

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There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the…

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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would…

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As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the…

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“Berg, smiling pleasantly, explained that if he did not know for certain how much Vera would have and did not receive at…

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“It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and…

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It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in…

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“Then she thought of how life could still be happy, and how tormentingly she loved and hated him, and how terribly her…

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How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn…

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“Anna Arkadyevna read and understood, but it was distasteful to her to read, that it, to follow the reflection of other people's…

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As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them,…

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Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and…

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At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man…

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I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress…

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These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw…

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –…

Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what…

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,…

To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at…

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.”

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command…

The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,…

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind…

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.