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
“Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One should never overdo” — Leo Tolstoy Inspirational Copy Share Image
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. — Leo Tolstoy Impossible Copy Share Image
The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate. — Leo Tolstoy Compassion Copy Share Image
The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold — Leo Tolstoy Bigger Copy Share Image
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will… — Leo Tolstoy Conception Copy Share Image
No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit — Leo Tolstoy Position 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 Art Copy Share Image
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed. — Leo Tolstoy Destroyed Copy Share Image
“Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a… — Leo Tolstoy Adultery Copy Share Image
Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse. — Leo Tolstoy Age Copy Share Image
“The man who ten years earlier and one year later was considered a bandit and outlaw is sent a two-day sail from… — Leo Tolstoy Bandit Copy Share Image
Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are,… — Leo Tolstoy Doe Copy Share Image
“Sou amigo da divisão do trabalho. Pessoas que não fazem nada devem fazer pessoas, enquanto as demais devem contribuir para a instrução… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must… — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot,… — Leo Tolstoy Drama 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 Depth Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to the life of every man, his individual life which is the more free the more abstract it's… — Leo Tolstoy Every man Copy Share Image
The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“You are all misleading one another, and are yourselves deceived. The sun does not go round the earth, but the earth goes… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“I was only a year and some odd months younger than Woloda, and from the first we had grown up and studied… — Leo Tolstoy Brother Copy Share Image
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man… — Leo Tolstoy Battlefields Copy Share Image
But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint… — Leo Tolstoy Bags Copy Share Image
“Having learnt from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this, and always expects the law he… — Leo Tolstoy Every man Copy Share Image
Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life… — Leo Tolstoy Awareness Copy Share Image
“In a clock the complex action of countless different wheels works its way out in the even, leisurely movement of hands measuring… — Leo Tolstoy Fear Copy Share Image
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable. — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and… — Leo Tolstoy Aspirations Copy Share Image
“And the dog you're taking with you will be no help to you. You can't get away from yourselves.” — Leo Tolstoy Away Copy Share Image
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. — Leo Tolstoy Dear 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 Fear Copy Share Image
I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be… — Leo Tolstoy Feels 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 Eternity Copy Share Image
“He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence.” — Leo Tolstoy Idleness Copy Share Image
In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy. — Leo Tolstoy Blasphemy Copy Share Image
“Our business is to do our duty, to cut and slash, not to think, that’s all,” he concluded.” — Leo Tolstoy Business Copy Share Image
