“When you understand that you will die tomorrow, if not today, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As a man cannot lift a mountain, and as a kindly man cannot kill an infant, so a man living the Christian… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act… — 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
“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
It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person… — 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
When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated… — 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
“My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What are these deaths and revivals? It is clear that I do not live whenever I lose my faith in the existence… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As soon as she had gone out, swift, swift light steps sounded on the parquet, and his bliss, his life, himself -… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, the more and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“How good it would be to know where to look for help in this life and what to expect after it, there,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“there is only one time that is important—Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He felt what a murderer must feel, when he sees the body he has robbed of life. That body, robbed by him… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is,… — 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
In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure… — 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
“Your treasure is where your heart is. If a person believes that his or her treasure is in the body only —… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper...there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies… — 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
I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to each man’s life: his personal life, which is the more free the more abstract its interests, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There was not a single cross or worried-looking face. All seemed to have left their cares and anxieties in the porter’s room… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you love God with all your soul, then you know your life does not end with your death. They asked a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Sympathy, love for one's brothers, for those who love us, love for those who hate us, love for our enemies, yes, the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Never to the end of his life could he understand goodness, beauty, or truth, or the significance of his actions which were… — 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
