Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Childhood Quotes, Quiet Quotes

Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Childhood Quotes , Quiet Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Art Quotes , Lying Quotes

Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Despair Quotes , Common Quotes

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Writing Quotes , Stories Quotes

The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Would Be Quotes , Excellent Quotes

Read less, study less, but think more

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Happy people have no history.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , People Quotes , History Quotes

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Soul Quotes , Changing Your Life Quotes

I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Imagination Quotes , Mind Quotes

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Sad Quotes , Joy Quotes

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Light Quotes , Shadow Quotes

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Mean Quotes , Too Much Quotes

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Men Quotes , Numbers Quotes

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Rewards Quotes , Causes Quotes

Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Important Quotes

Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Honesty Quotes , People Quotes

Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Political Opinions Quotes , Views Quotes

Faith is the force of life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Faith Quotes