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 Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough? Leo Tolstoy humility perfection inspirational When joy disappears, look for your mistake Leo Tolstoy mistake joy inspirational Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects. Leo Tolstoy land wish men If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe. Leo Tolstoy morality results men By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful. Leo Tolstoy spontaneous patriotism belief He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible. Leo Tolstoy mother impossible enemy If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you. Leo Tolstoy accountability support-you home 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 despair giving thinking I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky Leo Tolstoy one-thing asks suffering Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina} Leo Tolstoy too-much reason mean If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food, because, not to mention the excitement of the passions produced by such food, it is plainly immoral, as it requires an act contrary to moral feeling, i. e., killing - and is called forth only by greed. Leo Tolstoy passion animal men God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part. Leo Tolstoy god inspirational life There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it. Leo Tolstoy despair ends would-be Only those live who do good. Leo Tolstoy life The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes - love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust. Leo Tolstoy army stupid love History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends. Leo Tolstoy accomplishment humanity kings I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will be the same wall between my soul's holy of holies and other people, even my wife, I'll accuse her in the same way of my own fear and then regret it, I'll fail in the same way to understand with my reason why I pray, and yet I will pray--but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it! Leo Tolstoy wall regret wife The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life... Leo Tolstoy understanding appreciation art The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them. Leo Tolstoy real kindness believe I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had. Leo Tolstoy ends wish
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