“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Improve your kindness by exercising your intellect, and improve your intellect by exercising your kindness and love.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life — 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
Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant! — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There was apparently nothing extraordinary in what she said, but what unutterable meaning there was for him in every sound, in every… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“strangers in everything: different tastes, views, everything; but I know that you love me and understand me, and for that I love… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Besides, to fall out of love and in love at the same time is to love twice as deeply as one did… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The higher a man’s conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And therefore the Christian, who is subject only to the inner divine law, not only cannot carry out the enactments of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As Sterne says: ‘We don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would… — 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
