“Consider the death of the body in terms of God and His law. Your life, the life within you, encompasses everything within… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I'm not living, I'm waiting for a solution that goes on and on being put off.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are two aspects to the life of every man: the personal life, which is free in proportion as its interests are… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“PERHAPS people will scarcely believe me when I tell them what were the dearest, most constant, objects of my reflections during my… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A moment ago, and how close she had been to him, of what importance in his life! And how aloof and remote… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Levin was almost of the same age as Oblonsky; their intimacy did not rest merely on champagne. Levin had been the friend… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“No one thing is the cause. All this is only the coincidence of conditions under which every organic, elemental event of life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What is bad? What is good? What should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I?… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“i wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. i wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for… — 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
In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. A living man knows himself not otherwise… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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
Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person. — 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
