Leo Tolstoy World Quotations

Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

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

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

It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.

The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

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

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.

He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.

India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world

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

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

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.

I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world.

... women are the pivot round which the world turns.

I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth.

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

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?

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.

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

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.

Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world's amusements. It is for this reason that "amusements" are not so amusing.

If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.