All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys were so trifling as to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself. — 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 Copy Share Image
Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only- then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Levin had been married three months. He was happy, but not at all in the way he had expected to be. At… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what… — 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 Copy Share Image
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way — Leo Tolstoy 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
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“That which for Vronsky had been almost a whole year the one absorbing desire of his life, replacing all his old desires;… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The Bible legend tells us that the absence of toil - idleness - was a condition of the first man's state of… — 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
