ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life… — 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
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to… — 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
What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life… — 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
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“and new conditions of existence will spring up, to which other men will grow just as accustomed, and I shall not know… — 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
“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
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
“If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain… — 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
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
Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“That which for Vronsky had been almost a whole year the one absorbing desire of his life, replacing all his old desires;… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“[...] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all… — 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
“My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief was expressed by the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my lack of consistency, I say: Look at my present life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“No honor, no heart, no religion; a corrupt woman. I always knew it and always saw it, though I tried to deceive… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We are all brothers, but I live on a salary paid me for prosecuting, judging, and condemning the thief or the prostitute… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“True religion is that relationship, in accordance with reason and knowledge which man establishes with the infinite world around him, and which… — 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
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
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
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Well, why are you going to the war?” asked Pierre. “What for? I don’t know. I must. Besides that I am going…”… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be either complete discord between the spouses or loving… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in… — 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
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
![“[...] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all existence, so now they seemed as petty and insignificant in comparison with the brilliant sunshine in which the future was bathed. He went on with his work…” quote by Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e90/leo-tolstoy-55_darkness_but-just-as-formerly-these-pursuits-and_2841641.jpg)
![“Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my lack of consistency, I say: Look at my present life and then at my former life, and you will see that I do attempt to carry them out. It is true that I have not fulfilled one thousandth part of them [Christian precepts], and I am ashamed…” quote by Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c6/leo-tolstoy-55_accountability_not-in-order-to-justify-but-simply-in-or_623047.png)
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