Leo Tolstoy Quotes, People Quotes, Weakness Quotes

Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , People Quotes , Weakness Quotes

Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Talking Quotes , Giving Quotes

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Men Quotes , Modern Life Quotes

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Two Quotes , People Quotes

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Longing Quotes

Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Life Quotes , Christian Quotes

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Lying Quotes , Believe Quotes

The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Teaching Quotes , Godly Quotes

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Lying Quotes , Mean Quotes

We're asleep until we love.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Falling In Love Quotes

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Men Quotes , Reason Quotes

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Art Quotes , Food Quotes

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Giving Quotes , Important Quotes

One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others` mind. I can think of it myself. " Why should one think of something, when it is already thought about. Take it and go farther, this is the strength of the mankind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Thinking Quotes , People Quotes

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Boredom Quotes , Desire Quotes

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Writing Quotes

Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Tools Quotes

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Lying Quotes , Heart Quotes

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Home Quotes , Way Quotes

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , One Love Quotes , Always Loved You Quotes