Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy; 9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 August 1828
CountryRussian Federation
definite generosity happiness joy life object outside people personal themselves
Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness
want life-happiness said
You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so…yes, love!…
live-for-others life-is life-happiness
He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.
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Seize the moment of happiness... love and be loved.
happiness love-is people
People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.
happiness ideas knows
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.
happiness soul growth
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.
life happiness kind
Each time of life has its own kind of love.
happiness believe order
Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
love positive happiness
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
happiness vacation each-day
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
inspirational happiness country
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
life reality happiness-love
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
happiness want want-to-be-happy
If you want to be happy, be.