Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo TolstoyPerhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.
Leo TolstoyHappiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness
Leo TolstoyJoy 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.
Leo TolstoyBut the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute – was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart – the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves, and desire that alone.
Leo Tolstoy