I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky — Leo Tolstoy Hope Copy Share Image
“Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.” — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith. — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man. — Leo Tolstoy Men Copy Share Image
“O lo que yo llamaba racional no lo era tanto como había pensado, o lo que me parecía irracional no lo era… — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you… — Leo Tolstoy Childhood Copy Share Image
And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death. — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“As the sun and each atom of ether is a shphere complete in itself, yet at the same time only a part… — Leo Tolstoy Ether Copy Share Image
Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So… — Leo Tolstoy Amusing Copy Share Image
And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be… — Leo Tolstoy Distress Copy Share Image
“Let others be afraid, but the soul is not afraid of anything. It lives according to its own laws. It is bigger… — Leo Tolstoy Courage Copy Share Image
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The… — Leo Tolstoy Denominator Copy Share Image
“Returned home for dinner and dined alone—the countess had many visitors I do not like. I ate and drank moderately and after… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Imagine a flock of pigeons in a corn field. Imagine that ninety-nine of them, instead of pecking the corn they need and… — Leo Tolstoy Nature of man Copy Share Image
“Then as now much time was spent arguing about the rights of women, husband-and-wife relationships and freedom and rights within marriage, but… — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was… — 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
A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for… — Leo Tolstoy Advantage Copy Share Image
“man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our… — Leo Tolstoy Idleness 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 Divine love 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 Clear vision Copy Share Image
“Another's wife is a white swan, and ours is bitter wormwood.” — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure. — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good. — Leo Tolstoy Stories Copy Share Image
