The most important person is the one you are with in this moment. — Leo Tolstoy Important Copy Share Image
Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget... — Leo Tolstoy Forget Copy Share Image
“He saw nothing but death or the advance towards death in everything.” — Leo Tolstoy Advance Copy Share Image
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. — Leo Tolstoy Grief Copy Share Image
In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. — Leo Tolstoy Alive Copy Share Image
“The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.” — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.” — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.” — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal. — Leo Tolstoy Energy Copy Share Image
When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid. — Leo Tolstoy Doe Copy Share Image
“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no… — Leo Tolstoy Christ Copy Share Image
War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner,… — Leo Tolstoy Habits Copy Share Image
If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way… — Leo Tolstoy Aspect Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that what we call beauty in a face lies in the smile: if the smile heightens the charm… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to… — Leo Tolstoy Grass Copy Share Image
“Everything seemed pleasant and easy to Nikolai during the first part of his stay in Voronezh and, as generally happens when a… — Leo Tolstoy Psychology Copy Share Image
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always… — Leo Tolstoy Animal Copy Share Image
In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to… — Leo Tolstoy Crafts Copy Share Image
The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with… — Leo Tolstoy Cheerful Copy Share Image
Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that… — Leo Tolstoy Abolish Copy Share Image
Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of… — Leo Tolstoy Abolition Copy Share Image
Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter… — Leo Tolstoy Alone in love Copy Share Image
“Pfuel was one of those theoreticians who so love their theory that they lose sight of the theory's object—its practical application. His… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“Being lost and dead he had only to lie still, and was no longer obliged to wander through the pathless taiga. Otherwise,… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself. He was incapable of deceiving himself and persuading himself that he… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“It was one of the most commonest and most widespread misconceptions that every person has a fixed set of qualities; he is… — Leo Tolstoy Qualities Copy Share Image
“How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of… — Leo Tolstoy Assignment Copy Share Image
