It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them… — Leo Tolstoy Acceptance Copy Share Image
One may say with one's lips: 'I believe that God is one, and also three' - but no one can believe it,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If we allow that human life can be governed by reason, the possibility of life is annihilated” — Leo Tolstoy Human life Copy Share Image
Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power. — Leo Tolstoy Enslavement Copy Share Image
We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves. — Leo Tolstoy Always happy Copy Share Image
We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As estrelas, como se soubessem que agora ninguém as observava, começaram a brincar no céu negro. Ora chamejavam, ora apagavam, ora tremeluziam,… — Leo Tolstoy Amor 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 Being loved Copy Share Image
Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Laws of motion of any kind only become comprehensible to man when he can examine arbitrarily selected units of that motion. But… — Leo Tolstoy Human error Copy Share Image
It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And from the height of this perception all that had previously tormented and preoccupied him suddenly became illumined by a cold white… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And what was worst of all was that *It* drew his attention to itself not in order to make him take some… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
“He thought himself a shining light, and the more he felt this the more he was conscious of a wakening, a dying… — Leo Tolstoy Divine light Copy Share Image
When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was… — Leo Tolstoy Acting Copy Share Image
“Do in after life the freshness and light-heartedness, the craving for love and for strength of faith, ever return which we experience… — Leo Tolstoy Best gift Copy Share Image
“...there was apparent in all a sort of anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a consciousness of some great, unfathomable mystery… — Leo Tolstoy Birth Copy Share Image
The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least… — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her eyes and her smile set him on fire” — Leo Tolstoy Brilliance Copy Share Image
“If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.” — Leo Tolstoy Abstinence Copy Share Image
“strangers in everything: different tastes, views, everything; but I know that you love me and understand me, and for that I love… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All is over…I have nothing but you, remember that.” “I can never forget what is my whole life.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“How nicely Turovtsin laughs!" said Levin, admiring his moist eyes and shaking chest.” — Leo Tolstoy Laughter Copy Share Image
Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory — Leo Tolstoy Effort Copy Share Image
“A man who does not understand the benefit of suffering does not live a clever and true life.” — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“Todas as famílias felizes são iguais. As infelizes o são cada uma à sua maneira” — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
“Now that Vronsky had deceived her, she was prepared to love Levin and to hate Vronsky.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one… — Leo Tolstoy Always loved you Copy Share Image
Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. — Leo Tolstoy Christian love Copy Share Image
“Besides, to fall out of love and in love at the same time is to love twice as deeply as one did… — Leo Tolstoy Boyhood Copy Share Image
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image