He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others. Leo Tolstoy More Quotes by Leo Tolstoy More Quotes From Leo Tolstoy Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence. Leo Tolstoy satisfaction men needs She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was. Leo Tolstoy asks lovers needs Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists. Leo Tolstoy men-bashing women-bashing differences He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light. Leo Tolstoy fear-of-death no-fear light Every heart has its own skeletons. Leo Tolstoy skeletons heart Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about. Leo Tolstoy important should thinking The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher. Leo Tolstoy given teaching teacher Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives. Leo Tolstoy religious people religion The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment. Leo Tolstoy tears life ideas For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. Leo Tolstoy simplicity greatness truth Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders? Leo Tolstoy broken-heart together trying Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance. Leo Tolstoy goal doe men The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent. Leo Tolstoy writing lying negative Physical violence is the basis of authority. Leo Tolstoy bases violence authority Our body is a machine for living. Leo Tolstoy machines health body I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand Leo Tolstoy essence world thinking the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't. Leo Tolstoy delight feelings facts But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it will always be a lie. As though it were a strange sort of discovery that someone is in love! Just as if, as soon as he said that, something went snap-bang - he loves. Just as if, when he utters that word, something extraordinary is bound to happen, with signs and portents, and all the cannons firing at once. It seems to me, he went on, that people who solemnly utter those words, 'I love you,' either deceive themselves, or what's still worse, deceive others. Leo Tolstoy love-you men lying A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse. Leo Tolstoy wife worry So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome character, and you want all of life to be made up of wholesome phenomena, but that doesn't happen. So you despise the activity of public service because you want things always to correspond to their aim, and that doesn't happen. You also want the activity of the individual man always to have an aim, that love and family life always be one. And that doesn't happen. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade. Leo Tolstoy light character men
