I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we do them” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All men live not by what they intend for their own well being, but by the love that dwells in others.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees... — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I think … if there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected… — 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
“Yes, I suppose so," answered Anna, as though wondering at the boldness of his question; but the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her… — 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
“Every man experiences what you call love for every pretty woman and least of all for his wife. That is what the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I know now that people only seem to live when they care only for themselves, and that it is by love for… — 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
“How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What is bad? What is good? What should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I?… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live together all their lives… — 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
“I think love, both kinds of love, which you remember Plato defines in his "Symposium" - both kinds of love serve a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Was it through reason that I arrived at the necessity of loving my neighbor and not throttling him?...Not reason. Reason discovered the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“i wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. i wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Consider the death of the body in terms of God and His law. Your life, the life within you, encompasses everything within… — 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
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
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
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
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
