Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear… — 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
There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow." Levin” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And from the height of this perception all that had previously tormented and preoccupied him suddenly became illumined by a cold white… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And the light by which she had been reading the book of life, blazed up suddenly, illuminating those pages that had been… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other… — 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
