“I'm not living, I'm waiting for a solution that goes on and on being put off.” — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
The kinder and more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness they can find in other people. — Leo Tolstoy Kindness Copy Share Image
He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than… — Leo Tolstoy Mind Copy Share Image
“Faith—or not faith—I don't know what it is—but this feeling has come just as imperceptibly through suffering, and has taken firm root… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the… — Leo Tolstoy Divinity Copy Share Image
As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right… — Leo Tolstoy Harm Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Acknowledgment Copy Share Image
If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There is nothing certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but all-important.” — Leo Tolstoy Unimportance Copy Share Image
“Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these… — Leo Tolstoy Ambition Copy Share Image
“Natasha was happy as she had never been in her life. She was at that highest pitch of happiness, when one becomes… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a… — Leo Tolstoy Christian Copy Share Image
“In the morning he would sit down to work, finish his allotted task, then take the little lamp from the hook, put… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
“Only during a period of war does it become obvious how millions of people can be manipulated. People, millions of people, are… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Levin had often noticed in arguments between even the most intelligent people that after enormous efforts, an enormous number of logical subtleties… — Leo Tolstoy Intelligent people Copy Share Image
“... the extraordinary autumn weather that always comes as a surprise, when the sun hangs low and gives more heat than in… — Leo Tolstoy Autumn Copy Share Image
What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Isn't it distinctly to be seen in the development of each philosopher's theory, that he knows what is the chief significance of… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when… — Leo Tolstoy Flower Copy Share Image
“Kitty got up to fetch a table, and, as she passed, her eyes met Levin's. She felt for him with her whole… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin). — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her that.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“on which side is truth,—on the side of the thoughts which seem true and well-founded, or on the side of the lives… — Leo Tolstoy Lives of others Copy Share Image
“In spite of Stepan Arkadyevitch's efforts to be an attentive father and husband, he never could keep in his mind that he… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle. — Leo Tolstoy Battle Copy Share Image
The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness. — Leo Tolstoy Army Copy Share Image
The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of… — Leo Tolstoy Antagonism Copy Share Image
“Influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized if it is to last.” — Leo Tolstoy Capital Copy Share Image
“Yes, would have been,' he said sadly. 'He's precisely one of those people of whom they say that they're not meant for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina} — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I turned my attention to every thing that was done by people who claimed to be Christians, I was horrified.” — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
“Everyone had something disparaging to say about the unfortunate Maltyshcheva, and the conversation began crackling merrily like a kindling bonfire.” — Leo Tolstoy Communication 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 Copy Share Image
Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“No hay felicidad en la existencia, no hay más que relámpagos de felicidad.” — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
“Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light all around her.” — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
