“The shore was God, the stream was tradition, and the oars were the free will given to me to make it to… — 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
“The only real science is the knowledge of how a person should live his life. And this knowledge is open to everyone.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And I, too, am the same… only there is no love in my heart, or desire for love, no interest in work,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Looking into Napoleon's eyes, Prince Andrei thought about the insignificance of grandeur, about the insignificance of life, the meaning of which no… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life;… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And the light by which she had been reading the book of life, blazed up suddenly, illuminating those pages that had been… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was long before I could believe that human learning had no clear answer to this question. For a long time it… — 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 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
“As though I had been going steadily downhill, imagining that I was going uphill. So it was in fact. In public opinion… — 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
If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Was it through reason that I arrived at the necessity of loving my neighbor and not throttling him?...Not reason. Reason discovered the… — 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
