To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as… — 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
“Todas as mulheres são mais materialistas do que os homens. Nós fazemos do amor algo enorme, mas elas sempre se mantém ‘terre-à-terre’.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different… — 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
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“«But you are talking of physical love. Do you not admit a love based upon a conformity of ideals, on a spiritual… — 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
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
“If a teacher has only love for the cause, it will be a good teacher. If a teacher has only love for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A man could not be prevented from making himself a big wax doll, and kissing it. But if the man were to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for that past… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand because I love. Everything is united by it alone.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I saw that all who do not profess an identical faith with themselves are considered by the Orthodox to be heretics, just… — 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
“Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.” — 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
Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox. — 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
“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
“He wants to prove to me that his love for me must not interfere with his freedom” — 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
Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary. — 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
I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be… — 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
