“Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief was expressed by the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity… — 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
