“Next morning, when Semyon woke up, the children were still asleep and his wife had gone over to the neighbour's to borrow… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“O ye, who see perplexities over your heads, beneath your feet, and to the right and left of you; you will be… — Leo Tolstoy 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 Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself. He was incapable of deceiving himself and persuading himself that he… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take… — Leo Tolstoy 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 Copy Share Image
“Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What a boy, cousin! He ought to have been whipped, but the trick was so spirited and amusing that I let him… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Peaceful with six children Darya Alexandrova could not be...Rare indeed were the brief periods of peace...hard though it was for the mother… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Though the children did not know Levin well and did not remember when they had last seen him, they did not feel… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The memories of home and of her children rose up in her imagination with a peculiar charm quite new to her, with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Ambition was the old dream of his youth and childhood, a dream which he did not confess even to himself, though it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was nine years old; he was a child; he he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“the children themselves repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbor and not to throttle him?. They… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Oh, it's awful! oh dear, oh dear! awful!" Stepan Arkadyevitch kept repeating to himself, and he could think of nothing to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The universal experience of ages, showing that children do grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the countess.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“From another visitor to Yasnaya Polyana we learn that Tolstoy and his two daughters are vegetarians. The young countesses do not object… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy 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, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
