Quotes from Leo Tolstoy

I consider jealousy a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it.

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

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.

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be sad about what you don't have, you will not be happy about what you do have.

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

Nice passion is reading

she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

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.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.

Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.