The more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything. — Leo Tolstoy

Time and Patience. — Leo Tolstoy

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all. — Leo Tolstoy

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. — Leo Tolstoy

The strongest of all warriors are These two––time and patience. — Leo Tolstoy

Well, so it isn’t time yet to die, is it? — Leo Tolstoy

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow–that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. — Leo Tolstoy

So remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success. — Leo Tolstoy

But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all. — Leo Tolstoy

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time. — Leo Tolstoy

Each time of life has its own kind of love. — Leo Tolstoy

There is only one time that is important––NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power. — Leo Tolstoy

How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much! — Leo Tolstoy

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one’s own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one’s pen. — Leo Tolstoy

Spring is the time of plans and projects. — Leo Tolstoy

Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force. — Leo Tolstoy

Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him. — Leo Tolstoy

What time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life? — Leo Tolstoy

I am not strange but I feel queer. I am like that sometimes. I feel like crying all the time. It is very silly but it will pass. — Leo Tolstoy

In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me. — Leo Tolstoy

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does. — Leo Tolstoy

He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love. — Leo Tolstoy

We are asleep until we fall in Love! — Leo Tolstoy

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox. — Leo Tolstoy

To get rid of an enemy one must love him. — Leo Tolstoy

Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills. — Leo Tolstoy

What’s all this love of arguing? No one ever convinces anyone else. — Leo Tolstoy

Commit no act that is contrary to love. — Leo Tolstoy

Energy is based on love. — Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is in your ability to love others. — Leo Tolstoy

There are as many loves as there are hearts. — Leo Tolstoy

Seize the moment of happiness… love and be loved. — Leo Tolstoy

It’s hard to love a woman and do anything. — Leo Tolstoy

Music is love in search of a voice. — Leo Tolstoy

Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there’s no forcing it. — Leo Tolstoy

I have learned that men live not by selfishness, but by love. — Leo Tolstoy

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. — Leo Tolstoy

It is not beauty that endears, it’s love that makes us see beauty. — Leo Tolstoy

It is very difficult to tell the truth. — Leo Tolstoy

It is very difficult to tell the truth, and young people are rarely capable of it. — Leo Tolstoy

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. — Leo Tolstoy

It seems that only God can know the truth; it is to Him alone we must appeal, and from Him alone expect mercy. — Leo Tolstoy

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude. — Leo Tolstoy

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. — Leo Tolstoy

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith. — Leo Tolstoy

The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens… Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere. — Leo Tolstoy

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. — Leo Tolstoy

The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it. — Leo Tolstoy

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. — Leo Tolstoy

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go. — Leo Tolstoy

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation–it is the one unbreakable diamond. — Leo Tolstoy

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do? — Leo Tolstoy

When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, ‘Do what you like now. — Leo Tolstoy

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world. — Leo Tolstoy

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is! — Leo Tolstoy

One must be cunning and wicked in this world. — Leo Tolstoy

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception. — Leo Tolstoy

Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens? — Leo Tolstoy

There are such repulsive faces in the world. — Leo Tolstoy

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another? — Leo Tolstoy

Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world. — Leo Tolstoy

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced. — Leo Tolstoy

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank. — Leo Tolstoy

There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation. — Leo Tolstoy

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree. — Leo Tolstoy

If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known. — Leo Tolstoy

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom–in other words, a rigorous discipline–enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness. — Leo Tolstoy

Women are the pivot round which the world turns. — Leo Tolstoy

I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything. — Leo Tolstoy

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness… — Leo Tolstoy

Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great–thoughts, actions! They are all but grains of sand — Leo Tolstoy

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes. — Leo Tolstoy

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at? — Leo Tolstoy

Honest work is much better than a mansion. — Leo Tolstoy

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. — Leo Tolstoy

It is the work and not the reward that is precious. — Leo Tolstoy

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone. — Leo Tolstoy

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is. — Leo Tolstoy

He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died. — Leo Tolstoy

He was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk. — Leo Tolstoy

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

No matter what the work you are doing, be always ready to drop it. And plan it, so as to be able to leave it. — Leo Tolstoy

A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist. — Leo Tolstoy

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. — Leo Tolstoy

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase. — Leo Tolstoy

But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one’s own state, when this produces terrible evils for all. — Leo Tolstoy

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it. — Leo Tolstoy

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength. — Leo Tolstoy

You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work… if you love your work, you will find your reward in that. — Leo Tolstoy

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine. — Leo Tolstoy

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. — Leo Tolstoy

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness. — Leo Tolstoy

Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness — Leo Tolstoy

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence. — Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. — Leo Tolstoy

No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly–one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness. — Leo Tolstoy

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past. — Leo Tolstoy

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation. — Leo Tolstoy

Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness. — Leo Tolstoy

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. — Leo Tolstoy

All we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business. — Leo Tolstoy

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy

Nothing has been discovered, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And that’s the highest degree of human wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal–that there is no human relation between master and slave. — Leo Tolstoy

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. — Leo Tolstoy

There are only two sources of human vice–idleness and superstition, and only two virtues–activity and intelligence. — Leo Tolstoy

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. — Leo Tolstoy

Thou shalt not kill’ does not apply to murder of one’s own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai. — Leo Tolstoy

This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels. — Leo Tolstoy