Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are times when you'd give a whole month away for fifty kopecks, and others when you wouldn't give up half an… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Time is an illusion of life; the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Throughout the whole time that Grandmama's body was in the house I was oppressed with the fear of death, for the corpse… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But it did not interest her at all. She and Levin had a conversation of there own, yet not a conversation but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Yes, love, ...but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“... and for the first time in his life the possibility of death presented itself, not in relation to the living world,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But in the course of the war they waged against the taiga, scorching it with fire, and attacking it with iron, Makar’s… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“For the first time I envisaged the idea that we - that is, our family - were not the only people in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In a clock the complex action of countless different wheels works its way out in the even, leisurely movement of hands measuring… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Moreover, during his wife's confinement, something had happened that seemed extraordinary to him. He, an unbeliever, had fallen into praying, and at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Pierre was for the first time at this meeting impressed by the endless multiplicity of men's minds, which leads to no truth… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“the children themselves repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Why do i live? In the infinity of space, and infinity of time infinitely small particles mutate with infinite complexity. When you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A moment ago, and how close she had been to him, of what importance in his life! And how aloof and remote… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Did he suffer very much?" asked Pyotr Ivanovich. "Oh, awfully! For the last moments, hours indeed, he never left off screaming. For… — 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
