Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Mean Quotes

Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

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There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

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He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320

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The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

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The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

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If you want to be happy, just be.

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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

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To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

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The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

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Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these instruments of butchery, or to preparing oneself and others for the work of murder.

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Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

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The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

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Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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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.

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Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

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I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me

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