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Quotes About Trust

Let me lie down, Lord, like a stone; let me rise up like new bread.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Jealousy according to his notions was an insult to one's wife, and one ought to have confidence in one's wife
~ Leo Tolstoy
God. It all blew off his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul and his love to be?
~ Leo Tolstoy
It all blew off his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul and his love to be?
~ Leo Tolstoy
He saw that the inmost recesses of her soul, that had always hitherto lain open before him, were closed against him.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Alexey Alexandrovitch was standing face to face with life, with the possibility of his wife's loving someone other than himself, and this seemed to him very irrational and incomprehensible because it was life itself.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Now, in that moment, he knew that neither all his doubts, nor the impossibility he knew in himself of believing by means of reason, hindered him in the least from addressing God. It all blew off his soul like dust.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Don't steal the rolls!
~ Leo Tolstoy
Don't steal rolls.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It's absurd that having started writing rules at fifteen, I should still be writing them at thirty, without having trusted in, or followed a single one, but still for some reason believing in them and wanting them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Trebuie s?-i mul?ume?ti Lui ?i tot Lui s?-i ceri ajutor. Numai în El vom g?si lini?tea, mângâierea, salvarea ?i iubirea, ad?ug? ea ?i, în?l?ându-?i privirea la cer, începu s? se roage, dup? cum în?elese Alexei Alexandrovici din t?cerea ei.
~ Leo Tolstoy
he knew his own soul, it was dear to him, he protected it as the eyelid protects the eye, and did not let anyone into his soul without the key of love.
~ Leo Tolstoy
When he had joined the Freemasons he had experienced the feeling of one who confidently steps onto the smooth surface of a bog. When he put his foot down it sank in. To make quite sure of the firmness of the ground, he put his other foot down and sank deeper still, became stuck in it, and involuntarily waded knee-deep in the bog.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Prince Vasili took the first opportunity to gain his confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him,
~ Leo Tolstoy
He who commits his life to this son of man does not die, but he who does not commit his life to him destroys himself by not trusting to what is life itself Division (death) consists in this, that life came into the world, but men go away from that life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
In time, things fall its places for a man who know how to wait
~ Leo Tolstoy
because no one knew that she had only a few days ago refused a man whom she perhaps loved, and refused him because she trusted another.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I have often remarked that it is hardest of all to live with people who are untruthful and insincere. I can endure anything except that.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Till now I have always, thank God, been my children's friend and had their full confidence," said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who imagine that their children have no secrets from them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Stepan Arkadyevitch, like all unfaithful husbands indeed, was very solicitous for his wife's comfort
~ Leo Tolstoy
I remember her praying!' he thought. 'You could tell she was putting all her soul into her prayers. Yes, that's the kind of faith that moves mountains. I'm sure her prayers will be answered.
~ Leo Tolstoy
consider me your friend, and if you need help, advice, or simply to pour out your soul to somebody - not know, but when your soul is clear - remember me.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The hearts of kings are in the hands of God.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man who, while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly discover that the bridge is broken, and that there is a chasm below. That chasm was life itself, the bridge that artificial life in which Aleksey Aleksandrovich had lived. For the first time the question presented itself to him of the possibility of his wife's loving someone else, and he was horrified at it.
~ Leo Tolstoy