And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love"... — 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
“Is it possible that this stranger has now become everything to me?" she asked herself, and immediately answered, "Yes, everything! He alone… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our… — 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
“Do in after life the freshness and light-heartedness, the craving for love and for strength of faith, ever return which we experience… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Then she thought of how life could still be happy, and how tormentingly she loved and hated him, and how terribly her… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“that in every individual a spiritual element is manifested that gives life to all that exists, and that this spiritual element strives… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Love..." she repeated slowly, in a musing voice, and suddenly, while disentangling the lace, she added: "The reason I dislike this word… — 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
“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
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
And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you… — 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
