“that in every individual a spiritual element is manifested that gives life to all that exists, and that this spiritual element strives… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As a man cannot lift a mountain, and as a kindly man cannot kill an infant, so a man living the Christian… — Leo Tolstoy Arguments Copy Share Image
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to… — Leo Tolstoy Every morning Copy Share Image
“Praštati ne znači samo reći: praštam, nego iščupati iz srca srdnju, zlo osećanje prema onom ko nas je uvredio. A da to… — Leo Tolstoy Forgivness Copy Share Image
“Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has… — Leo Tolstoy Disaster Copy Share Image
The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had… — Leo Tolstoy Dedicated Copy Share Image
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“wisdom needs no violence...As it is we have played at war – that’s what’s vile! We play at magnanimity and all that… — Leo Tolstoy Magnanimity Copy Share Image
“Only Anna was sad. She knew that now, from Dolly's departure, no one again would stir up within her soul the feelings… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Sympathy, love for one's brothers, for those who love us, love for those who hate us, love for our enemies, yes, the… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“How good it would be to know where to look for help in this life and what to expect after it, there,… — Leo Tolstoy Compassion Copy Share Image
“So that is what my dream meant! Pashenka is what I ought to have been but failed to be. I lived for… — Leo Tolstoy Dreams Copy Share Image
“Her eyes, always sad, now looked into the mirror with particular hopelessness. "She's flattering me," thought the princess, and she turned away… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
“If he had a reason for preferring Liberalism to the Conservatism of many in his set, it was not that he considered… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than… — Leo Tolstoy Book Copy Share Image
Life is everything. Life is God. Everything changes and moves and that movement is God. And while there is life there is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are men who call land theirs, yet have never set eyes on that land and have never trodden it. There are… — Leo Tolstoy Evil Copy Share Image
“one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and now I do believe in it. Let the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was clear that everything considered important and good was insignificant and repulsive, and that all this glamour and luxury hid the… — Leo Tolstoy Resurrection Copy Share Image
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of… — Leo Tolstoy History Copy Share Image
“My brother's death: wise, good, serious, he fell ill while still a young man, suffered for more than a year, and died… — Leo Tolstoy Brother Copy Share Image
“When you understand that you will die tomorrow, if not today, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Oh no, Papa, Kitty objected warmly. Varenka adores her. And besides, she does so much good! Ask anyone you like! Everybody knows… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as… — Leo Tolstoy Ambition Copy Share Image
He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by… — Leo Tolstoy Heart Copy Share Image
“(In the Soviet Union, it was forbidden to celebrate Christmas. In order to keep the much beloved custom of the Christmas Tree—and… — Leo Tolstoy Christmas Copy Share Image
“Napoleon, the man of genius, did this! But to say that he destroyed his army because he wished to, or because he… — Leo Tolstoy Napoleon Copy Share Image
“Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky—Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world— woke up at his usual… — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do… — Leo Tolstoy Book Copy Share Image
“Chance created the situation; genius utilized it,” says history. But what is chance? What is genius? The words chance and genius do… — Leo Tolstoy Chance Copy Share Image
“At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
“He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so… — Leo Tolstoy Argument Copy Share Image
“During the first, in 1857, he forced himself to witness a public execution in Paris, and the sight shook him so deeply… — Leo Tolstoy Execution Copy Share Image
“But really, why should you distress yourself? Whoever stirs up the past — out with his eye! Who is not a sinner… — Leo Tolstoy Distress Copy Share Image
Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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