Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for… — 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