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
“History – the amorphous, unconscious life within the swarm of humanity – exploits every minute in the lives of kings as an… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I felt that what I had been standing on had collapsed and that I had nothing left under my feet. What I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A thought can advance your life in the right direction only when it answers questions which were asked by your soul. A… — 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
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 majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to the life of every man, his individual life which is the more free the more abstract it's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with… — 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
“Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There never has been and cannot be a good life without self-control. Apart from self-control no good life is imaginable.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He meditated on the use to which he should put all the energy of youth which comes to a man only once… — 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
