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 Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence. Leo Tolstoy men war peace The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered. Leo Tolstoy simple law peace Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!" thought Pierre. "And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up! Leo Tolstoy depth stars sky To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none. Leo Tolstoy speak would-be giving What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it. Leo Tolstoy where-you-are eye helping Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned people not only do not notice the harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and elevating. Leo Tolstoy passion self blood To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings. Leo Tolstoy suffering blessed life When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation. Leo Tolstoy love life children One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything. Leo Tolstoy forgiveness position forgiving It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary. Leo Tolstoy falling-in-love weakness fall Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment. Leo Tolstoy judgment use praying Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along? Leo Tolstoy able understanding feelings There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power. Leo Tolstoy important live-in-the-moment time Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death. Leo Tolstoy ends here-i-am forget She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters. Leo Tolstoy sorrow want heart We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do? Leo Tolstoy deceit mean lying There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation. Leo Tolstoy divinity law world I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is. Leo Tolstoy i-have-learned horror whole I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed. Leo Tolstoy fortune sometimes thinking Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries. Leo Tolstoy issues prejudice today
