“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Afterward I could not help admiring the discrimination of the host and hostess in the distribution of the children’s presents. The little… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Go take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man , and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was very, very early in the morning. You were probably only just awake. Your mother was asleep in the corner. It… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Not all will believe in my teaching. And they who will not believe, will hate it; because it bereaves them of that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He did not in his heart respect his mother, and without acknowledging it to himself, he did not love her, though in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys were so trifling as to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“How many trials and tribulations we have to go through in order to enjoy them as they are now! And even now,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“His father always talked to him—so Seryozha felt—as though he were addressing some boy of his own imagination, one of those boys… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Pray only thus: Our Father, without beginning and without end, like the heavens! May Thy being alone be holy. May power be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In spite of Stepan Arkadyevitch's efforts to be an attentive father and husband, he never could keep in his mind that he… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The study was slowly lit up as the candle was brought in. The familiar details came out: the stag's horns, the bookshelves,… — 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
Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He had lived (without being aware of it) on those spiritual truths that he had sucked in with his mother's milk, but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus… — 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
