Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good… — Leo Tolstoy Change Copy Share Image
“She repeated continually, "My God! my God!" But neither "God" nor "my" had any meaning to her.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always… — Leo Tolstoy Anger Copy Share Image
Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart? — Leo Tolstoy Book Copy Share Image
“And he has to live like this on the edge of destruction, alone, with nobody at all to understand or pity him” — Leo Tolstoy Destruction Copy Share Image
Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step! — Leo Tolstoy Animal Copy Share Image
“For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be either complete discord between the spouses or loving… — Leo Tolstoy Family Copy Share Image
“It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“Berg, smiling pleasantly, explained that if he did not know for certain how much Vera would have and did not receive at… — Leo Tolstoy Heart Copy Share Image
but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more… — Leo Tolstoy Goodness 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
If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are… — Leo Tolstoy Amusement Copy Share Image
“And indeed, if Evgeny Irtenev was mentally ill, then all people are just as mentally ill, and the most mentally ill are… — Leo Tolstoy Madness Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The strongest proof that in the name of “science” we pursue unworthy and sometimes even harmful things is the existence of a… — Leo Tolstoy Human development Copy Share Image
“What are these deaths and revivals? It is clear that I do not live whenever I lose my faith in the existence… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but… — Leo Tolstoy Depression 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 Life Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know you were going. What are you coming for?" she said, letting fall the hand with which she had grasped… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“You can't understand it; for you men, who are free and make your own choice, it's always clear whom you love. But… — Leo Tolstoy Girl Copy Share Image
“And just as the conclusions of the astronomers would have been vain and uncertain if not founded on observations of the seen… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume… — Leo Tolstoy Christian Copy Share Image
The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He felt that in the depth of his soul something had been put in its place, settled down, and laid to rest.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love. — 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. — Leo Tolstoy Folly Copy Share Image
“Noticis ir tas, ka es gaidu ciemiņus, un es nemaz negaidu ciemiņus, un nekas nav noticis, bet es lūdzu jūs aizbraukt” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He stepped down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, yet he saw her as one… — Leo Tolstoy Affection Copy Share Image
“He wants to prove to me that his love for me must not interfere with his freedom” — Leo Tolstoy Freedom Copy Share Image
“Thus ran his thoughts; he wanted to go to bed, but he felt loath to tear himself away from the book.” — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling... — Leo Tolstoy Feelings Copy Share Image
The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it. — Leo Tolstoy Creation Copy Share Image
“It's different for you and me. You study, you become enlightened; I study, I become confused.” — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
