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
“Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“When she heard this Sonya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable to bear the looks turned upon her,… — Leo Tolstoy Dance Copy Share Image
“I know now that people only seem to live when they care only for themselves, and that it is by love for… — Leo Tolstoy God is love Copy Share Image
“and new conditions of existence will spring up, to which other men will grow just as accustomed, and I shall not know… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that this stranger has now become everything to me?" she asked herself, and immediately answered, "Yes, everything! He alone… — Leo Tolstoy Engagement Copy Share Image
“A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard. And the candle by which she had read the book… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship… — Leo Tolstoy Agnosticism Copy Share Image
“And there in the middle, high above Prechistensky Boulevard, amidst a scattering of stars on every side but catching the eye through… — Leo Tolstoy Comet Copy Share Image
At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at… — Leo Tolstoy Anna Copy Share Image
But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him… — Leo Tolstoy Aspiration Copy Share Image
“He understood not only that she was close to him, but that he no longer knew where she ended and he began.… — Leo Tolstoy Time Copy Share Image
There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow,… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
“It is just the same with the so-called criminals living in our midst. To bring these people under the sway of Christianity… — Leo Tolstoy Christian life Copy Share Image
“Nikolushka and his upbringing, Andre, and religion were Princess Marya's comforts and joys; but, besides that, since every human being needs his… — Leo Tolstoy Dream Copy Share Image
“Every man experiences what you call love for every pretty woman and least of all for his wife. That is what the… — Leo Tolstoy Every man Copy Share Image
“Do not be interested in the quantity of people who respect and admire you, but in their quality. If bad people dislike… — Leo Tolstoy Bad people Copy Share Image
“Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal… — Leo Tolstoy Animal Copy Share Image
“But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort,… — Leo Tolstoy Kindness Copy Share Image
“We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of… — Leo Tolstoy Fatalism Copy Share Image
There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else… — Leo Tolstoy Free life Copy Share Image
Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration… — Leo Tolstoy Brightness Copy Share Image
“But the princess had never seen the beautiful expression of her eyes; the expression that came into them when she was not… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty 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
“He studied the people of Moscow at the theaters, in the clubs, in the streets, looking for the types he needed. A… — Leo Tolstoy Great man Copy Share Image
“but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“True religion is that relationship, in accordance with reason and knowledge which man establishes with the infinite world around him, and which… — Leo Tolstoy Accordance 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 Eyes Shone Copy Share Image
“Moreover, during his wife's confinement, something had happened that seemed extraordinary to him. He, an unbeliever, had fallen into praying, and at… — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your… — Leo Tolstoy Ability Copy Share Image
“But if you are alive—live: tomorrow you'll die as I might have died an hour ago. And is it worth tormenting oneself,… — Leo Tolstoy Eternity Copy Share Image
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not… — Leo Tolstoy Change Copy Share Image
“Well, why are you going to the war?” asked Pierre. “What for? I don’t know. I must. Besides that I am going…”… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“Higher and higher receded the sky, wider and wider spread the streak of dawn, whiter grew the pallid silver of the dew,… — Leo Tolstoy Moon Copy Share Image
“Although Vasili Andreevich felt quite warm in his two fur coats, especially after struggling in the snow drift, a cold shiver ran… — Leo Tolstoy Fur coats Copy Share Image
There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end-… — Leo Tolstoy Despair Copy Share Image
“He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible. He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a fairy… — Leo Tolstoy Battle Copy Share Image
