Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy
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...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 August 1828
CountryRussian Federation
bad-day ability-to-love ability
Happiness is in your ability to love others.
patience time warrior
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
love life marriage
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
inspirational sorry mean
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
love marriage changing-your-life
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
inspirational trust spiritual
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
dream creepy wake-up
Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.
life christian people
Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.
kings accomplishment humanity
History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.
life reality happiness-love
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
heart dark men
There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.
lambs doe cry
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
beautiful teaching personality
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
growing-up struggle men
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who’ve never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages.