“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
“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 magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she… — Leo Tolstoy Blood 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
“Those who don’t believe in the spiritual foundations of their faith, who only pay lip service to the outer shell of their… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected.… — Leo Tolstoy Desire Copy Share Image
But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions… — Leo Tolstoy Certain Copy Share Image
“wonder at the short-sightedness of men who seek enjoyment and happiness here on earth: toiling, suffering, struggling, and harming one another, to… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness 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
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am… — Leo Tolstoy Accountability Copy Share Image
It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new… — Leo Tolstoy Aim Copy Share Image
“With 6 children Darya Alexandrovna could not be calm. One got sick, another might get sick, a third lacked something, a fourth… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“No one spoke of hatred of the Russians. the feeling experienced by all the Chechens, from the youngest to the oldest, was… — Leo Tolstoy Hatred Copy Share Image
“S., a clever and truthful man, once told me the story of how he ceased to believe. On a hunting expedition, when… — Leo Tolstoy Adventure Copy Share Image
“With all my soul I wished to be good, but I was young, passionate and alone, completely alone when I sought goodness.… — Leo Tolstoy Confession Copy Share Image
“He had never thought the question over clearly, but vaguely imagined that his wife had long suspected him of being unfaithful to… — Leo Tolstoy Beautiful woman 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
One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything. — Leo Tolstoy Forgive Copy Share Image
The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the… — Leo Tolstoy Anniversary Copy Share Image
“In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.” — Leo Tolstoy History Copy Share Image
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume… — Leo Tolstoy Christian Copy Share Image
“And he has to live like this on the edge of destruction, alone, with nobody at all to understand or pity him” — Leo Tolstoy Destruction Copy Share Image
“For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.” — Leo Tolstoy First time Copy Share Image
Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step! — Leo Tolstoy Animal Copy Share Image
Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always… — Leo Tolstoy Anger Copy Share Image
“She repeated continually, "My God! my God!" But neither "God" nor "my" had any meaning to her.” — Leo Tolstoy Continually Copy Share Image
Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart? — Leo Tolstoy Book Copy Share Image
either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity,… — Leo Tolstoy Ease 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
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on.… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
“What energy!' I thought. 'Man has conquered everything, and destroyed millions of plants, yet this one won't submit.” — Leo Tolstoy Energy Copy Share Image
