“Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. — 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
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life;… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982 — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment. Sebastopol by Leo… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was nine years old; he was a child; he he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in… — 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
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
