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
“Said He, whoever exalts himself, shall be humbled, and he who is humbled shall become exalted.” — 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 Blessed Copy Share Image
“Drops Dripped. Quiet talk went on. Horses neighed and scuffled. Someone snored.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Yes, they’re splendid, splendid youngsters,” declared the Count, who settled all perplexing questions by deciding that everything was splendid.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“wonder at the short-sightedness of men who seek enjoyment and happiness here on earth: toiling, suffering, struggling, and harming one another, to… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions… — 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 Christianity 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 Advice Copy Share Image
Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new… — Leo Tolstoy Drones Copy Share Image
ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“True religion is that relationship, in accordance with reason and knowledge which man establishes with the infinite world around him, and which… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am… — Leo Tolstoy Accountability Copy Share Image
School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The Bible legend tells us that the absence of toil - idleness - was a condition of the first man's state of… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
“Self-conceit is a sentiment entirely incompatible with genuine sorrow, and it is so firmly engrafted on human nature that even the most… — Leo Tolstoy Conceit Copy Share Image
“There are two inevitable conditions of life, confronting all of us, which destroy its whole meaning; (1) death, which may at any… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Formerly, when I was told to consider him wise, I kept trying to, and thought I was stupid myself because I was… — Leo Tolstoy Idiot Copy Share Image
“Life meanwhile, the actual life of men with their real interests of health and sickness, labour and rest, with their interests of… — Leo Tolstoy Actual life Copy Share Image
I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts. — 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
“What is bad? What is Good? What should one love, what hate? Why live and what am I? What is life, what… — Leo Tolstoy Death 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 Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. — Leo Tolstoy Conscience Copy Share Image
What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“She was jealous not of any particular woman but of the decrease of his love. Not having an object for her jealousy,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
“Ferreting in one’s soul, one often ferrets out something that might have lain there unnoticed.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Psychology Copy Share Image
Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very… — Leo Tolstoy Clever Copy Share Image
“But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink, he recovered. Scarcely” — Leo Tolstoy Medicine 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 Life Copy Share Image
Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of… — Leo Tolstoy Environmental Copy Share Image
“The danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution, but in a stubborn traditionalism that impedes progress.” — Leo Tolstoy Danger Copy Share Image
The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals. — Leo Tolstoy Earth Copy Share Image
