Love Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, just be.

— Leo Tolstoy

Only those live who do good.

— Leo Tolstoy

We're asleep until we love.

— Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, be happy.

— Leo Tolstoy

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

— Leo Tolstoy

“God knows of love”

— Leo Tolstoy

Love those you hate you.

— Leo Tolstoy

And where love ends, hate begins

— 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

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Leo Tolstoy

There are as many loves as there are hearts.

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Leo Tolstoy

Everything I know, I know because of love.

— Leo Tolstoy

Is it possible to say what one really feels?

— Leo Tolstoy

“He wants to prove to me that his love for me must not interfere with his freedom”

— Leo Tolstoy

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Leo Tolstoy

It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

— Leo Tolstoy

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

— Leo Tolstoy

I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be…

— Leo Tolstoy

The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting…

— Leo Tolstoy

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I know now that people only seem to live when they care only for themselves, and that it is by love for…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Every man experiences what you call love for every pretty woman and least of all for his wife. That is what the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Is it possible that this stranger has now become everything to me?" she asked herself, and immediately answered, "Yes, everything! He alone…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.…

— Leo Tolstoy

“How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her…

— Leo Tolstoy

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Leo Tolstoy

“I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my…

— Leo Tolstoy

“i wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. i wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Consider the death of the body in terms of God and His law. Your life, the life within you, encompasses everything within…

— Leo Tolstoy

“If a teacher has only love for the cause, it will be a good teacher. If a teacher has only love for…

— Leo Tolstoy

The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special…

— Leo Tolstoy

“What is bad? What is good? What should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I?…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Leo Tolstoy

But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I…

— Leo Tolstoy

“But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live together all their lives…

— Leo Tolstoy