No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
“Each one of us has to save his own soul, and has to do God's work himself, but instead of that we… — Leo Tolstoy Bible Copy Share Image
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that… — Leo Tolstoy Inspiring Copy Share Image
“De la o vreme, Ivan Ilici isi petrecea mai tot timpul incercand sa retraiasca clipele de odinioara, cand vechile sentimente il tinusera… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Then these moments of perplexity began to recur oftener and oftener, and always in the same form. They were always expressed by… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.” — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my lack of consistency, I say: Look at my present life… — Leo Tolstoy Accountability Copy Share Image
“At times he would become so absorbed in reading, that all the kerosene in the lamp would burn out, and still he… — Leo Tolstoy Time Copy Share Image
The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it. — Leo Tolstoy Creation Copy Share Image
Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure. — Leo Tolstoy Feels 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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The… — Leo Tolstoy Fractions Copy Share Image
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be… — Leo Tolstoy Deeds Copy Share Image
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre — Leo Tolstoy Inspirational Copy Share Image
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. — Leo Tolstoy Conscience Copy Share Image
“When you carry your burden, you should know that it is good for you to have it. Make the best of this… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“Bethink yourselves whether it is righteous to obey man more than God,” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her being that it expressed itself beyond her will, now in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“(In the Soviet Union, it was forbidden to celebrate Christmas. In order to keep the much beloved custom of the Christmas Tree—and… — Leo Tolstoy Christmas Copy Share Image
“My friend was perfectly right, though it was not until long, long afterwards that experience of life taught me the evil that… — Leo Tolstoy Friendship Copy Share Image
