Leo Tolstoy I do not have all that I love But I love everything that I have

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy - a graph by birth,is among the most famous writers and thinkers in Russia and abroad. Known to us since the school's bench due to his novel-epic "War and Peace", he wrote many other beautiful works. Lev Nikolaevich exerted a tremendous influence on world realism in literature and on the evolution of European humanism. During his lifetime, he was recognized as the head of Russian literature.

We recall several significant quotations by Leo Tolstoy:

• Everyone wants to change humanity, but no one thinks about how to change themselves.
• Evil is only within us, that is, where it can be taken out.
• Strong people are always simple.
• It's not about knowing a lot, but about knowing everything you can know from what's most needed.
• Physical labor not only does not exclude the possibility of mental activity, not only improves its dignity, but encourages it.
• Love? What is love? Love hinders death. Love is life. Everything, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists only because I love. Everything is connected by her alone. Love is God, and to die means to me, a part of love, to return to the common and eternal source.
• It always seems that we are loved because we are so good. And do not guess that they love us because they are good people who love us.
• Let everyone sweep before his door. If everyone does this, the whole street will be clean.
• There are no conditions that a person could not get used to, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives the same way.
• The strength of the government rests on the ignorance of the people, and it knows this and will therefore always struggle against enlightenment. It's time for us to understand this.
• There is not that scoundrel who, having looked, would not have found the scoundrels in any respect worse than himself and who therefore could not find a reason to be proud and be satisfied with himself.
• People are often proud of the purity of their conscience simply because they have a short memory.
• Have a goal for all life, a goal for a certain time, a goal for the year, for the month, for the week, for the day and for the hour, and for the minute, sacrificing the lower goals to higher ones.
• Grain is invisible in the earth, but only from it grows a huge tree. The thought is also invisible, but only from the thought the greatest events of the life of man grow.
• Real knowledge is given by the heart. We only know what we love.
• Living with people, do not forget what you learned in seclusion. And in solitude, consider what you learned from communicating with people.
• One of the most surprising misconceptions is that a person's happiness is to do nothing.
• Old age is the greatest surprise in life.
• True life is only the one that continues past, contributes to the good of life of the modern and the good of life of the future.
• It is difficult to imagine that salutary change that would have occurred in all human life if people had stopped befuddling and poison themselves with vodka, wine, tobacco and opium.
• The condemnation of another is always wrong, because no one can ever know what has happened and is happening in the soul of the one whom you condemn.
• It is better to do nothing than do nothing.
• A person should always be happy; if happiness ends, see what was wrong.
• To be happy, one must constantly strive for this happiness and understand it. It does not depend on circumstances, but on oneself.