Leo Tolstoy Quotations

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. Leo Tolstoy

Everything that I understand I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. Leo Tolstoy

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Leo Tolstoy

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. Leo Tolstoy

To love one's neighbors, to love one's enemies, to love everything, to love God in all his manifestations, human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love. Leo Tolstoy

Where there is love, there is God also. Leo Tolstoy

Women are well aware that what is commonly called sublime and poetical depends not upon qualities, but on frequent meetings, and on the style in which the hair is done up, and on the color and cut of the dress. Leo Tolstoy

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.  Leo Tolstoy

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