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Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Total quotes: 30
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
Tagged: Grief, Pain, Misery, Life Challenges, Loving Too Much
“He felt he was himself and did not want to be otherwise. He only wanted to be better than he had been before.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: Discontent, Loneliness
“And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Pamphlets. Translated from the Russian
Tagged: Change, change in thinking, change of views, Change of Life, change starts within, Life
“He was a child; but he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and without the key of love he let no one into his soul.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: Self-awareness, Intelligence, young, Soul
“Don’t you understand that from the day I loved you everything has changed for me?”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina(Everyman's Library) by Leo Tolstoy (1992-04-28)
Tagged: Love, Change, different
“With one burning hand she held his and with the other she kept pushing him away.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: Love, Relationship, Holding On, Letting Go
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Tagged: Patience, Time
“Everything is, everything exists, only because I love”
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Tagged: Love, Everything, Existence, Living, Life
“In another world we shall understand it all.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: another world, Life After Death, Understand, comprehend, World, Life
“Is it possible to tell anyone else what you feel?”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: expressing feelings, Expressing Your Feelings, Expressing emotions, expression, Expressing Yourself
“Everything I know, I know because of love.”
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
Tagged: Love, Passion
“He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: Fear, Love, Soul
“But their eyes when they met spoke more fondly and kissed tenderly.”
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Tagged: Eyes, kiss, affection, Intimacy
“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: Illusion, Goodness, beauty, deceiving
“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
Tagged: Time, Patience
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: Concealed Feelings, Romantic, Relationship
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: first lines of books
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: Love Lines
“Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving, romance, Heartbreak
“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving, romance, Heartbreak
“We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: Falling Out Of Love, Different Directions
“Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Wisdom for the Soul
Tagged: Music, Leo Tolstoy
“I do nothing, and I fret about it.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: Relatable, procrastination
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: Respect, Love, filling love, completing love, Emptiness
“It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: Love, romance, loving a woman, Struggle of Love
“Everything intelligent is so boring.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: Intelligence, intelligent, Person
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: Perfection, How To Be Content, Finding The Perfect, Ideas, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: Motivational, strength, Powerful, Strong
“All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love.”
— Leo Tolstoy, 50 Love Quotes That Express Exactly What 'I Love You' Really Means
Tagged: Dating, Love, Relationships
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