65 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy about Life



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    Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.

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    Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

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    I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

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    When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

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    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.

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    One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.

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    As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence - as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual.

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