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Posted on Oct 05, 2008 under Anna Karenina, Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, L, Leo Tolstoy, Russian Writer, War and Peace | No CommentLeo Tolstoy’s Love Quotes and Sayings
1. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
2. And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
3. If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
4. 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.
5. It is not beauty that endears, it’s love that makes us see beauty.
6. When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
7. He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.
8. Only 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.
9. To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
10. You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
11. What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9 [O.S. August 28] 1828 – November 20 [O.S. November 7] 1910), was a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists. His masterpieces War and Peace (Audiobook 4 CDs) and Anna Karenina (Audiobook) represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction.
Tolstoy’s further talents as essayist, dramatist, and educational reformer made him the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Famous Sayings from Leo Tolstoy
1. A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
2. All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
3. All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
4. Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
5. Boredom: the desire for desires.
6. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
7. Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
8. If you want to be happy, be.
9. In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
10. The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
11. There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
12. To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.
13. Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
14. We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
15. 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.
16. Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.
17. The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
18. The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
19. What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts.
20. You 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.
21. Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
22. If you want to be happy, you have to believe in the possibility of happiness … Let the dead bury the dead, but while ever there is life,you must live and be happy.
23. Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.
24. Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
