There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed. — Leo Tolstoy Acceptance Copy Share Image
“She, his Dolly, forever fussing and worrying over household details,” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
... a man has to think of his soul before everything else. — Leo Tolstoy Inspirational Copy Share Image
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings. — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
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
History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements. — Leo Tolstoy History Copy Share Image
When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in… — Leo Tolstoy Anarchy Copy Share Image
By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich — Leo Tolstoy Alexis Copy Share Image
“However, the truth requires one to make an effort if one is to be freed from misconceptions and lies. You” — Leo Tolstoy Lies Copy Share Image
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Natasha was happy as she had never been in her life. She was at that highest pitch of happiness, when one becomes… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a… — Leo Tolstoy Christian Copy Share Image
“I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary,… — Leo Tolstoy Inspirational Copy Share Image
“In the morning he would sit down to work, finish his allotted task, then take the little lamp from the hook, put… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“the event had to take place simply because it had to take place. Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We should always try to find those things which do not separate us from other people but which unite us. To work… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“them reminded him of all he had experienced and learned during these weeks and this recollection was pleasant to him. For some… — Leo Tolstoy Autumn Copy Share Image
“But just as the force of gravitation-in itself incomprehensible, though felt by every man- is only so far understood by us as… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“knew that the result of a battle is decided not by the orders of a commander in chief, nor the place where… — Leo Tolstoy Commander in chief Copy Share Image
The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man,… — Leo Tolstoy Bees Copy Share Image
“The girls noticed that Volodia, who was generally so talkative and gay, seldom spoke now and never smiled and on the whole… — Leo Tolstoy Sisters Copy Share Image
“The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her love for Rostov was… — Leo Tolstoy Beloved Copy Share Image
“The prince enjoyed unusually good health even among princes; both by gymnastic exercises and by taking good care of his body he… — Leo Tolstoy Fitness Copy Share Image
“Andrei Khrisanfitch returned to his room to smoke a little till there was another ring at the door, and Yefimya ceased speaking,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. — Leo Tolstoy Goodness Copy Share Image
“Yes, there is something uncanny, demonic and fascinating in her.” — Leo Tolstoy Demonic Copy Share Image
Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread". — Leo Tolstoy Bread Copy Share Image
“There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent” — Leo Tolstoy Goodness Copy Share Image
“My life seemed so wretched, the future so hopeless, the past so black!” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image