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World Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

43 World quotes by Leo Tolstoy

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World is portrayed as a chaotic place, a speck of mildew on a tiny planet. The military realm is described as lacking freedom and full of cruelty. The writer suggests that one must be clever to survive, and that bringing love and truth can improve the world.

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Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.

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It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

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India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world

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Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

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... women are the pivot round which the world turns.

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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

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There are such repulsive faces in the world.

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Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

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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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The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the…

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

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What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

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Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of…

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One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.

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Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves…

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There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the…

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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 of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but…

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If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something…

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He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the…

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The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and…

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Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the…

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I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have…

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It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good…

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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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He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station…

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There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to…

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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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The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the…

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I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before…

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“Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?”

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“All this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew which has grown up on a tiny planet.”

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I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without…

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The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

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I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck…

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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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We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not…

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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other…

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I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world…

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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.