The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the… — Leo Tolstoy Calling Copy Share Image
“Occasionally she glanced at him, asking with her glance, 'Is this what I think?' "I understand,' she said, blushing. "What is this… — Leo Tolstoy Wonderfully-romantic Copy Share Image
“Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.” — Leo Tolstoy History Copy Share Image
“Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart… — Leo Tolstoy Human relations Copy Share Image
I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or… — Leo Tolstoy Able Copy Share Image
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence. — Leo Tolstoy Accustomed Copy Share Image
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. — Leo Tolstoy God Copy Share Image
To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as… — Leo Tolstoy Burning Copy Share Image
“How horrified he would have been if, seven years ago, when he had just come from abroad, someone had told him that… — Leo Tolstoy Years ago Copy Share Image
“There are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they are accepted by those… — Leo Tolstoy Neutrality Copy Share Image
“She felt for him with her whole heart, the more because she was pitying him for suffering from the pain she had… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“My life seemed so wretched, the future so hopeless, the past so black!” — Leo Tolstoy Family-happiness Copy Share Image
No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit — Leo Tolstoy Position 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 Dreams Copy Share Image
“All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.” — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“Though men in their hundreds of thousands had tried their hardest to disfigure that little corner of the earth where they had… — Leo Tolstoy Men and women Copy Share Image
“the children themselves repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love… — Leo Tolstoy Alone in love Copy Share Image
“Well, what of it? I've not given up thinking of death. It's true that it's high time I was dead; and that… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not,… — Leo Tolstoy Able Copy Share Image
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's… — Leo Tolstoy Dip Copy Share Image
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal. — Leo Tolstoy Activity Copy Share Image
The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality. — Leo Tolstoy Bases Copy Share Image
“If a man decides that it is better for him to resist the demands of a present feeble love, in the name… — Leo Tolstoy Future love Copy Share Image
