There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough? — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things — 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
Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something… — 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
If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,'… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be… — 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
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you… — Leo Tolstoy 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
If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no… — 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
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
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
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
