Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9 September 1828
– 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a
Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.
Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828,
he is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877),
often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim
in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and
Youth (1852–1856), and Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based upon his experiences
in the Crimean War. Tolstoy's fiction includes dozens of short stories and
several novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and Hadji
Murad. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays.
In the 1870s Tolstoy experienced a profound
moral crisis, followed by what he regarded as an equally profound spiritual
awakening, as outlined in his non-fiction work A Confession.
Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no
one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
It is not beauty that endears, it's love that
makes us see beauty.
Leo Tolstoy
The key to success in life is using the good
thoughts of wise people.
Leo Tolstoy
There is no greatness where there is no
simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy
If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating
the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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
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.
Leo Tolstoy
The more is given the less the people will work
for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Leo Tolstoy
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its
growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy
When you love someone, you love the person as
they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is in your ability to love others.
Leo Tolstoy
The strongest of all warriors are these two —
Time and Patience.
Leo Tolstoy
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the
company of intelligent women.
Leo Tolstoy
Everything depends on upbringing.
Leo Tolstoy
Without knowing what I am and why I am here,
life is impossible.
Leo Tolstoy
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy
Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a
deceiver!
Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is pleasure without regret
Leo Tolstoy
If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the
future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.
Leo Tolstoy
The most important knowledge is that which
guides the way you lead your life.
Leo Tolstoy
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty
of life is made up of light and shadow.
Leo Tolstoy
Each person's task in life is to become an
increasingly better person.
Leo Tolstoy
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece
of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.
Leo Tolstoy
Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I,
could I, ever forget...
Leo Tolstoy
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to
wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they
will do it all.
Leo Tolstoy
Love is life. All, everything that I understand,
I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because
I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I,
a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Leo Tolstoy
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what
he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the
denominator, the smaller the fraction.
Leo Tolstoy
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a
good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of
animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the
performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.
Leo Tolstoy
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