QUOTES

Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
- Leo Tolstoy
"When you love someone, you love the person as they are and not as you’d like them to be."
- Leo Tolstoy
"Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same."
- Leo Tolstoy
"If you want to be happy, be."
- Leo Tolstoy
"Love those who hate you."
- Leo Tolstoy
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
- Leo Tolstoy
"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that's pati..."
- Leo Tolstoy
"When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be."
- Leo Tolstoy
"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."
- Leo Tolstoy
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
- Leo Tolstoy
"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the den..."
- Leo Tolstoy
"If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see th..."
- Leo Tolstoy
"Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person."
- Leo Tolstoy
"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility."
- Leo Tolstoy
"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."
- Leo Tolstoy
"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly."
- Leo Tolstoy
"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."
- Leo Tolstoy
"We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom."
- Leo Tolstoy