Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A man who does not understand the benefit of suffering does not live a clever and true life.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All is over…I have nothing but you, remember that.” “I can never forget what is my whole life.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life... — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary,… — 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
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them,… — 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
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
“But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Isn't it distinctly to be seen in the development of each philosopher's theory, that he knows what is the chief significance of… — 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
“Not reason. Reason discovered the struggle for existence, and the law that requires us to oppress all who hinder the satisfaction of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her love for Rostov was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Military life in general depraves men. It places them in conditions of complete idleness, that is, absence of all rational and useful… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife,… — 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
What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Since the moment when, at the sigh of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him… — 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
“If we allow that human life can be governed by reason, the possibility of life is annihilated” — 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
“Therein is the whole business of one’s life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing.” — 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
I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The struggle for existence and hatred are the only things that unite people.” — 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
