These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression… — Leo Tolstoy Depression Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Acknowledgment 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… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it. — Leo Tolstoy Energy 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… — Leo Tolstoy Parenting 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,… — Leo Tolstoy Activity Copy Share Image
To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none. — Leo Tolstoy Giving 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… — Leo Tolstoy Change 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… — 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 Psychology 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… — Leo Tolstoy Command Copy Share Image
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the… — Leo Tolstoy Entertainment Copy Share Image
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to… — Leo Tolstoy Civilization Copy Share Image
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. — Leo Tolstoy Kinds of love Copy Share Image
Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped… — Leo Tolstoy Advice Copy Share Image
“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 Grief Copy Share Image
“All the while my head would be filled with vivid dreams concerning the heroes of my last-read novel, and I would keep… — Leo Tolstoy Dreams Copy Share Image
“Napoleon, the man of genius, did this! But to say that he destroyed his army because he wished to, or because he… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Has it ever befallen you, my readers, to become suddenly aware that your conception of things has altered — as though every… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent” — Leo Tolstoy Simplicity Copy Share Image
“Anna Arkadyevna read and understood, but it was unpleasant for her to read, that is, to follow the reflection of other people’s… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
