Inspirational Quotes by 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

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

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

— Leo Tolstoy

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

— Leo Tolstoy

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

— Leo Tolstoy

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.

— Leo Tolstoy

... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.

— Leo Tolstoy

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

— Leo Tolstoy

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Leo Tolstoy

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our…

— Leo Tolstoy

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the…

— Leo Tolstoy

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

— Leo Tolstoy

In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

— Leo Tolstoy

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life…

— Leo Tolstoy

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

— Leo Tolstoy

Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

— Leo Tolstoy

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— 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

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

“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

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

— Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, be happy.

— Leo Tolstoy

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

— Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is in your ability to love others.

— Leo Tolstoy

When joy disappears, look for your mistake

— Leo Tolstoy

Happy people have no history.

— Leo Tolstoy

Love those you hate you.

— Leo Tolstoy

But the peasants - how do the peasants die?

— Leo Tolstoy

Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?

— Leo Tolstoy