Life is Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

25 Life is quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy’s view of existence is rooted in deep empathy, moral inquiry, and the everyday struggles of ordinary people. In 25 carefully chosen lines you’ll sense his timeless call for authenticity and compassion.

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Life is fragile and absurd.

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I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.

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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

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He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.

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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

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The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

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Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

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Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at…

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The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only…

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For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

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To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as…

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

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To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings,…

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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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ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life…

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It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the…

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The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of…

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As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of…

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Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is…

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

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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

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The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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