Leo Tolstoy Quotes about Giving

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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

Leo Tolstoy

Truth, Lying, Giving

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

Leo Tolstoy

Giving, Office

Graf Leo Tolstoy (1960). “Lift Up Your Eyes: The Religious Writings of Leo Tolstoy”

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?'

Leo Tolstoy

Giving, Important, Answers

"Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy". Book by Lynda Walsh, p. 90, 2013.

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

Leo Tolstoy

Giving, Would Be, Speak

"The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: Anna Karénina".

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

Leo Tolstoy

Past, Giving, Masters

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina”, p.939, Xist Publishing

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.

Leo Tolstoy

Compassion, Sight, Giving

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.194, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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.

Leo Tolstoy

Talking, Giving, Spokes

There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.

Leo Tolstoy

Giving, Needs, Forget

Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Anna Karenina”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you. My whole being, my love...yes! I cannot think about you and about myself separately. You and I are one to me. And I do not see before us the possibility of peace either for me or for you. I see the possibility of despair, misfortune...or of happiness-what happiness!...Is it impossible?" Vronksy

Leo Tolstoy

Thinking, Giving, Despair

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.230, e-artnow