Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. Leo Tolstoy More Quotes by Leo Tolstoy More Quotes From Leo Tolstoy I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love. Leo Tolstoy love-ismenlife Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something. Leo Tolstoy dreammemoriespast It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at? Leo Tolstoy enoughinspirationalthinking The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Leo Tolstoy thoughtfulkindnesspeople People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are. Leo Tolstoy riverswaterpeople He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. Leo Tolstoy flowermenlooks All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing. Leo Tolstoy theatreactorsfeelings The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction. Leo Tolstoy religiousmeanpeople It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated. Leo Tolstoy usualchangemen In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people. Leo Tolstoy communicationmeanart Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge. Leo Tolstoy unitingmeanart The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. Leo Tolstoy vocationmenpeople Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime. Leo Tolstoy springtimesacredmen True life is lived when tiny changes occur. Leo Tolstoy true-lifelife-changingchange If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. Leo Tolstoy weddinglovefunny One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees. Leo Tolstoy qualitynaturepeople Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels? Leo Tolstoy changing-your-lifefeels To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them. Leo Tolstoy christianeuropemen Kings are the slaves of history. Leo Tolstoy historicalkingshistory For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite. Leo Tolstoy meaning-of-lifeablemen
