Leo Tolstoy: Trending quotes (page 2)

“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.”

“The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.”

“Love hinders death. 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.”

“In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. …Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of affective communication between people.”

“There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.
How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”

“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”

“The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens … Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.”

“Further acquaintance with the labors of the Quakers and their works — with Fox, Penn, and especially the work of Dymond (published in 1827) — showed me not only that the impossibility of reconciling Christianity with force and war had been recognized long, long ago, but that this irreconcilability had been long ago proved so clearly and so indubitably that one could only wonder how this impossible reconciliation of Christian teaching with the use of force, which has been, and is still, preached in the churches, could have been maintained in spite of it.”

“If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”

“The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.”

“If you want to improve your soul, you should be ready to sacrifice it.”

“No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that “amusements” are not so amusing.”

“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”

“And I understood that in man dwells Love! I was glad that God had already begun to show me what He had promised, and I smiled for the first time.”

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

“To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.”

“The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.”

“Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad (Latin).”

“Until you do what you believe in, you don’t know whether you believe it or not.”