Leo Tolstoy Quotes

1. Six feet of land was all that he needed.
    
2. It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.
    
3. One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
    
4. When a person is haughty, he distances himself from other people and thereby deprives himself of one of life’s biggest pleasures—open, joyful communication with everyone.
    
5. One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.
    
6. All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
    
7. An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life—becoming a better person.
    
8. In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
    
9. Seize 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.
    
10. My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, is every moment of it no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an unquestionable meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it.
     
11. I 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.
     
12. To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
     
13. Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.
     
14. 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.
     
15. Saying that what we call our “selves” consist only of our bodies and that reason, soul, and love arise only from the body, is like saying that what we call our body is equivalent to the food that feeds the body. It is true that my body is only made up of digested food and that my body would not exist without food, but my body is not the same as food. Food is what the body needs for life, but it is not the body itself. The same thing is true of my soul. It is true that without my body there would not be that which I call my soul, but my soul is not my body. The soul may need the body, but the body is not the soul.