I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master. Leo Tolstoy More Quotes by Leo Tolstoy More Quotes From Leo Tolstoy Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour? Leo Tolstoy important stupid mind You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all! Leo Tolstoy storm special war What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. Leo Tolstoy teaching personality beautiful If people tell you that Leo Tolstoy real believe people Happiness is in your ability to love others. Leo Tolstoy bad-day inspirational-life happiness Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver! Leo Tolstoy deceiver changing-your-life liars Life is fragile and absurd. Leo Tolstoy life-is-fragile absurd life-is If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job. Leo Tolstoy work attitude jobs Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is. Leo Tolstoy political doe men I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. Leo Tolstoy truth science lying For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable. Leo Tolstoy inevitable eye impossible A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who’ve never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages. Leo Tolstoy growing-up struggle men The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful. Leo Tolstoy mysterious-things intelligent kindness To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.' Leo Tolstoy evil war people If you look for perfection, you'll never be content. Leo Tolstoy perfect life looks The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase. Leo Tolstoy political work people Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. Leo Tolstoy happiness inspirational life Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace. Leo Tolstoy forgive-and-forget forgiveness peace Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness. Leo Tolstoy book ideas I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again. Leo Tolstoy rewriting i-can writing
