If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But the more intensely he thought, the clearer it became to him that it was indubitably so, that in reality, looking upon… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Was it through reason that I arrived at the necessity of loving my neighbor and not throttling him?...Not reason. Reason discovered the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What is bad? What is good? What should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I?… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The great natural forces lie outside us and we are not conscious of them: we call those forces gravitation, inertia, electricity, animal… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that one must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“How good it would be to know where to look for help in this life and what to expect after it, there,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He positively forgot where he was, and not even hearing what was said, he could not take his eyes off the marvelous… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One step across the dividing line, so like the one between the living and the dead and you enter an unknown world… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We talked of a future life, of art, service, marriage, and education; nor did the idea ever occur to us that very… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“People often think the question of non-resistance to evil by force is a theoretical one, which can be neglected. Yet this question… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand because I love. Everything is united by it alone.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What is bad? What is Good? What should one love, what hate? Why live and what am I? What is life, what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“They haven’t an idea what happiness is; they don’t know that without our love, for us there is neither happiness nor unhappiness—no… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I do not live my own life, there is something stronger than me which directs me. I suffer; but formerly I was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What right had I to imagine that she would wish to unite her life with mine? Who and What am I? A… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And what will be there, and what has there been here? Why was I so reluctant to part with life? There was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“History – the amorphous, unconscious life within the swarm of humanity – exploits every minute in the lives of kings as an… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to realize this and not make a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
