If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. — Leo Tolstoy Conviction Copy Share Image
The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good. — Leo Tolstoy Stories Copy Share Image
“Another's wife is a white swan, and ours is bitter wormwood.” — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
“He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died.” — Leo Tolstoy Died Copy Share Image
“I only know this, that she thanks God for all her tribulations, and, above all, because her husband is dead.” — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
“We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we do them” — Leo Tolstoy Good Copy Share Image
Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to… — Leo Tolstoy Given Copy Share Image
I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of… — Leo Tolstoy Dawn Copy Share Image
“All men live not by what they intend for their own well being, but by the love that dwells in others.” — Leo Tolstoy Dwells Copy Share Image
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way — Leo Tolstoy Family 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 Best love Copy Share Image
“There are times when you'd give a whole month away for fifty kopecks, and others when you wouldn't give up half an… — Leo Tolstoy Anti capitalism 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
All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that… — Leo Tolstoy Actors Copy Share Image
“The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly… — Leo Tolstoy Family life Copy Share Image
Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only… — Leo Tolstoy Heart Copy Share Image
“My second sentiment was a craving for love. I wanted every one to know me and to love me. I wanted to… — Leo Tolstoy Craving Copy Share Image
“Sight-seeing, aside from the fact that everything had been seen already, could not have for him--and intelligent Russian--the inexplicable importance attached to… — Leo Tolstoy Russian Inexplicable Copy Share Image
“Pierre's insanity consisted in the face that he did not wait, as before, for personal reasons, which he called people's merits, in… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“He got up, wishing to go around, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox right over Helene, behind her back. Helene moved… — Leo Tolstoy Perfume Copy Share Image
“When he was dressed, Stepan Arkadyevitch sprinkled some scent on himself, pulled down his shirt-cuffs, distributed into his pockets his cigarettes, pocketbook,… — Leo Tolstoy Dressed Copy Share Image
She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a… — Leo Tolstoy Battle Copy Share Image
“When he thought of her, he could call up a vivid picture of her to himself, especially the charm of that little… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“Does it ever happen to you,' said Natasha to her brother when they had settled down in the sitting-room, 'does it ever… — Leo Tolstoy Sad Think Copy Share Image
“Peaceful with six children Darya Alexandrova could not be...Rare indeed were the brief periods of peace...hard though it was for the mother… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“I'm inexcusably happy. Something magical has happened to me, like a dream, when you're frightened, panic-stricken, and all of a sudden you… — Leo Tolstoy Dreams Copy Share Image
“Mamma was playing Field’s second concerto. Field, it may be said, had been her master. As I dozed, the music brought up… — Leo Tolstoy Nostalgia Copy Share Image
Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it. — Leo Tolstoy Energy Copy Share Image
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people. — Leo Tolstoy Good thoughts Copy Share Image
“Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One should never overdo” — Leo Tolstoy Inspirational Copy Share Image
