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Life Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...
- The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long…
- How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life;…
- The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent…
- Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo…
- The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless…
- The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry…
- Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it…
- As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which…
- The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.
- History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as…
- Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people,…
- Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
- 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.
- If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is…
- It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any…
- The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by…
- The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
- The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.
- The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people…
- If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use…
- So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather…
- My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing…
- It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a…
- The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle