Leo Tolstoy Quotes & Sayings

41 most famous Leo Tolstoy quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a Russian novelist who passed away on 20 November, 1910.

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

“If you want to be happy, be.”

“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”

“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.”

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”

“I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.”

“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.”