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.”
Leo Tolstoy
PinThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time.PinJust as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.PinLife could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.PinSeize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.PinPay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.PinOne can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.”
Leo Tolstoy
PinIf you want to be happy, be. – Leo TolstoyPinA truly wise man is always joyful.PinHappiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.PinYou see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work… if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.PinTruth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.PinThe sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.PinIf you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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
24 Wise Leo Tolstoy Quotes on Love & Life (WISDOM)
PinWe can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.PinWithout knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.PinWhen you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.PinTrue life is lived when tiny changes occur.PinEveryone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.PinYou can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.PinLet us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.”
Leo Tolstoy
PinEach person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.PinOnly 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.PinIt is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.PinRespect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.PinThere is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent.PinWrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.PinAll, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.PinI think… if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.PinSome mathematician said: ‘Pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.PinI often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.PinAnd all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.PinAnything is better than lies and deceit!PinRummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.PinOur body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.PinNothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.PinA 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.
Born on 9 September 1828, in Yasnaya Polyana, Tula province, Russian empire, Tolstoy had won the Nobel Prize in Literature for four consecutive years from 1902 to 1906.
He was nominated three times for Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1910.
The fact that he had never won a Nobel Peace Prize is a major controversy even till this day.
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