Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at? — 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
The kinder and more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness they can find in other people. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. — 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
Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the… — 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
There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own:… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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
The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not… — 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
