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 Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support. Leo Tolstoy wall home heart Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom. Leo Tolstoy epidemics men sex Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again? Leo Tolstoy candor childhood quiet Seize the moment of happiness... love and be loved. Leo Tolstoy happiness-love happy-love moments My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time. Leo Tolstoy principal sin doubt And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children. Leo Tolstoy future believe children What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world! Leo Tolstoy unhappy use world There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good. Leo Tolstoy successful heart hands but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it. Leo Tolstoy whole-life minutes goodness I don’t count life as life without love Leo Tolstoy life-without-love without-love Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful, loathsome death, the only reality, relentlessly closing in on him; and that same endless lie. What did days, weeks, or hours matter? Leo Tolstoy friday pain morning These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on. These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up. Leo Tolstoy husband heart lying Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man. Leo Tolstoy sacrifice inspirational art ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God. Leo Tolstoy love-life suffering mean I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you. Leo Tolstoy command disappear suffering In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble. Leo Tolstoy calm noble and-love The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before. Leo Tolstoy kissing life fall At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them. Leo Tolstoy done people school You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love! Leo Tolstoy life-happiness want said 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 forget giving needs
