Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Biography: Leo Tolstoy is renowned for his classic novels "War and Peace" and "An... more Biography: Leo Tolstoy is renowned for his classic novels "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina." Born in 1828 in Russia, Tolstoy was an influential writer, philosopher, and social reformer. His works explore themes of morality, religion, and society, cementing his place as a literary giant of the 19th century. less

"The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.""The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.""All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.""Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.""Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.""True love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.""The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.""If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.""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.""The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience, not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.""All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.""A truly wise man is always joyful.""Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?""Music is the shorthand of emotion.""Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.""What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.""We can know only one thing: that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.""All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.""When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.""The best stories don't come from "good versus bad" but "bad versus worse."

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