Greater Quote by Leo Tolstoy

These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw…

— Leo Tolstoy

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

— Leo Tolstoy

“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –…

— Leo Tolstoy

Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

— Leo Tolstoy

“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what…

— Leo Tolstoy

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,…

— Leo Tolstoy

To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

— Leo Tolstoy

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

— Leo Tolstoy

“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at…

— Leo Tolstoy

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

— Leo Tolstoy

“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.”

— Leo Tolstoy

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command…

— Leo Tolstoy