… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales. Leo Tolstoy More Quotes by Leo Tolstoy More Quotes From Leo Tolstoy He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty. Leo Tolstoy meaning-of-lifeeyeworld From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid. Leo Tolstoy confidencestupidclever If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. Leo Tolstoy if-you-love-meifspeace When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now." Leo Tolstoy coffinswomenfeet 'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai. Leo Tolstoy philosophicalcompassionanimal A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Leo Tolstoy meat-consumptionanimalfood The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear. Leo Tolstoy mind-blowinglongpeople He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken. Leo Tolstoy flowerheartmen There are such repulsive faces in the world. Leo Tolstoy facesworld The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care. Leo Tolstoy menlyingthinking And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people. Leo Tolstoy inspirationallovepeople Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be. Leo Tolstoy has-beensbornmen Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. Leo Tolstoy returnlovemean If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Leo Tolstoy namesmenlife God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling. Leo Tolstoy forgive-mestrugglefeelings A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away Leo Tolstoy splitstwentiestwo ... women are the pivot round which the world turns. Leo Tolstoy turnswomenworld There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad. Leo Tolstoy usetwopeople We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand Leo Tolstoy cleverinspirationalchildren Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling. Leo Tolstoy feelingsmenart
