No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there… — 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
“happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Before and after the funeral I never ceased to cry and be miserable, but it makes me ashamed when I think back… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse… — 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
