ٰ"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
“But it did not interest her at all. She and Levin had a conversation of there own, yet not a conversation but… — Leo Tolstoy Communication Copy Share Image
“I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I,… — Leo Tolstoy Blessings 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
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
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
“But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen on the French as well as on the Russian side are only… — Leo Tolstoy Hindsight Copy Share Image
“Answer me two more questions,’ said the King. ‘The first is, Why did the earth bear such grain then and has ceased… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“Soon after the doctor, Dolly had arrived. She knew that there was to be a consultation that day, and though she was… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“On earth, here on this earth, there is no truth, all is false and evil; but in the universe, in the whole… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“Whether he was acting ill or well he did not know, and far from laying down the law about it, he now… — Leo Tolstoy Doubt Copy Share Image
“Well, what of it? I've not given up thinking of death. It's true that it's high time I was dead; and that… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live together all their lives… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected.… — Leo Tolstoy Desire Copy Share Image
The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Those who don’t believe in the spiritual foundations of their faith, who only pay lip service to the outer shell of their… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life… — Leo Tolstoy Depth Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to the life of every man, his individual life which is the more free the more abstract it's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the… — Leo Tolstoy Absence Copy Share Image
it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“That's how it always is," Koznyshev interrupted him. "We Russians are always like that. Perhaps it's one of our good national characteristics.… — Leo Tolstoy Russia Copy Share Image
“Do not seek quiet and rest in those earthly realms where delusions and desires are engendered, for if thou dost, thou wilt… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“And the light by which she had been reading the book of life, blazed up suddenly, illuminating those pages that had been… — Leo Tolstoy Book Copy Share Image
“At the men's end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. The colonel told them that the declaration of… — Leo Tolstoy Commander in chief Copy Share Image
“The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It is as if… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed, she is so kind hearted that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“marveling at this boldness and ease in her presence, and not for one second losing sight of her, though he did not… — Leo Tolstoy Boldness Copy Share Image
“His father always talked to him—so Seryozha felt—as though he were addressing some boy of his own imagination, one of those boys… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“When I came to you out of all that dust and heat and toil, I positively smelt violets at once. But not… — Leo Tolstoy Melting snow Copy Share Image
“As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free,… — Leo Tolstoy Freedom Copy Share Image
“We exchanged disagreeable remarks. The impression of this first quarrel was terrible. I say quarrel, but the term is inexact. It was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“That’s my one desire, to be caught," answered Vronsky, with his serene, good-humored smile. "If I complain of anything it’s only that… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
