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 We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them. Leo Tolstoy done people What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. Leo Tolstoy men war peace Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw. Leo Tolstoy hearing saws talking God knows, but He's waiting Leo Tolstoy god-knows waiting knows He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly Leo Tolstoy felt wish I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth. Leo Tolstoy disappear spirit world He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around. Leo Tolstoy possession heart joy In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men. Leo Tolstoy patriotic men mean 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 spokes talking giving It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which power may fall, and does fall, into the, hands of the worst men. Leo Tolstoy organization men fall Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got. Leo Tolstoy contentment appreciate worry Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly. Leo Tolstoy flew drones voice She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments. Leo Tolstoy struggle men past Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone. Leo Tolstoy great-work works-of-art art It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion. Leo Tolstoy stupid feelings people I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody. Leo Tolstoy sorry people thinking Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn. Leo Tolstoy coats political-opinions views There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so' Leo Tolstoy issues military people They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and erat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us. Leo Tolstoy taken suffering long You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it! Leo Tolstoy sloth brain funny
