All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. — Leo Tolstoy Learning Copy Share Image
“And then all at once love turns up, and you're done for, done for.” — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is… — Leo Tolstoy Baby Copy Share Image
I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them. — Leo Tolstoy Failure Copy Share Image
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible. — Leo Tolstoy Feminism Copy Share Image
And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful. — Leo Tolstoy Charm Copy Share Image
“He bent his head towards his shoulder and tried to look pitiful and humble, but for all that he was radiant with… — Leo Tolstoy Health Copy Share Image
The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life... — Leo Tolstoy Appreciation Copy Share Image
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“No hay situación a la que el hombre no se acostumbre, especialmente si todos los que le rodean la soportan como él.” — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“It's really ludicrous; her object is doing good; she a Christian, yet she's always angry; and she always has enemies, and always… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
“That which constitutes the cause of the economic poverty of our age is what the English call over-production (which means that a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Napoleon, with his usual assurance that whatever entered his head was right, wrote to Kutuzov the first words that occurred to him,… — Leo Tolstoy Confidence Copy Share Image
The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and… — Leo Tolstoy Lovers Copy Share Image
“And therefore the Christian, who is subject only to the inner divine law, not only cannot carry out the enactments of the… — Leo Tolstoy Divine law Copy Share Image
“How strange, extraordinary, and joyful it was to her to think that her son - the little son, whose tiny limbs had… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There is an old Eastern fable about a traveler who is taken unawares on the steppes by a ferocious wild animal. In… — Leo Tolstoy Animals Copy Share Image
“The prison inspector and the warders, though they had never understood or gone into the meaning of these dogmas and of all… — Leo Tolstoy Dogma Copy Share Image
“Although these words of hers confirmed in me my conviction that I was not handsome, they also confirmed in me an ambition… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“We are accustomed to understand art to be only what we hear and see in theaters, concerts, and exhibitions, together with buildings,… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“A commercial company enslaved a nation comprising two hundred millions. Tell this to a man free from superstition and he will fail… — Leo Tolstoy Business Copy Share Image
“And I, too, am the same… only there is no love in my heart, or desire for love, no interest in work,… — Leo Tolstoy Contentment Copy Share Image
“Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch's eyes twinkled gaily, and he pondered with a smile.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed. — Leo Tolstoy Fortune Copy Share Image
