Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget... — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“She was jealous not of any particular woman but of the decrease of his love. Not having an object for her jealousy,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What is bad? What is Good? What should one love, what hate? Why live and what am I? What is life, what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“They haven’t an idea what happiness is; they don’t know that without our love, for us there is neither happiness nor unhappiness—no… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. — 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
“Here it is. Let's say you're married, you love your wife, but you're attracted by another woman.' 'Excuse me, but I absolutely… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind…Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Pierre's insanity consisted in the face that he did not wait, as before, for personal reasons, which he called people's merits, in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Ambition was the old dream of his youth and childhood, a dream which he did not confess even to himself, though it… — 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
“My second sentiment was a craving for love. I wanted every one to know me and to love me. I wanted to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Sou amigo da divisão do trabalho. Pessoas que não fazem nada devem fazer pessoas, enquanto as demais devem contribuir para a instrução… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Love, true love, love that denies itself and transfers itself to another, is the awakening within oneself of the highest universal principle… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of Christ, which teaches love, humility, and self-denial, had always attracted me. But I found a contrary law, both in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter… — 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
“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
“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
As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them,… — 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
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 Image
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 Image