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Leo Tolstoy quotes about love

Russian Novelist September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910

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Leo Tolstoy quote: "It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see..."
It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "To get rid of an enemy one must love him."
To get rid of an enemy one must love him. Leo Tolstoy
But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it will always be a lie. As though it were a strange sort of discovery that someone is in love! Just as if, as soon as he said that, something went snap-bang - he loves. Just as if, when he utters that word, something extraordinary is bound to happen, with signs and portents, and all the cannons firing at once. It seems to me, he went on, that people who solemnly utter those words, 'I... Leo Tolstoy
Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost. Leo Tolstoy
Ambition was the old dream of his youth and childhood, a dream which he did not confess even to himself, though it was so strong that now his passion was even doing battle with his love Leo Tolstoy
At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love? Leo Tolstoy
I know now that people only seem to live when they care only for themselves, and that it is by love for others that they really live. He who has Love has God in him, and is in God - - because God is Love. Leo Tolstoy
As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted only when there is something prepared to paint it on, so carnal love is only legitimate, reasonable, and lasting when it is based on the respect and love of one human being for another. Leo Tolstoy
[Pierre] involuntarily started comparing these two men, so different and at the same time so similar, because of the love he had for both of them, and because both had lived and both had died. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as..."
We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them. Leo Tolstoy
What is precious is not the reward but the work. And I wish you to understand that. If you work and study in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard to you; but when you work, if you love the work, you will find your reward in that. Leo Tolstoy
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. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "If there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as..."
If there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so..."
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. Leo Tolstoy
Pierre's insanity consisted in the face that he did not wait, as before, for personal reasons, which he called people's merits, in order to love them, but love overflowed his heart, and loving people without reason, he discovered the unquestionable reasons for which it was worth loving them. Leo Tolstoy

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