Even the strongest current of water cannot add a drop to a cup which is already full. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “As we live through thousands of dreams…”
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 we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last […]
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “The decrease of the general cause of suffering…”
The decrease of the general cause of suffering — illusion — is the only pleasant work which lies before a man, and gives him that true happiness in which his life consists. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “Who has hired you as a nurse to this sick society?”
Who has hired you as a nurse to this sick society? Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “The worst of human errors…”
The worst of human errors spring in most cases from the fact that men who stand on a low intellectual level, when they encounter events of a higher order, instead of trying to rise to the higher level from which these events can be rightly viewed, and making an effort to understand them, judge them by their own low standards, […]
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “I have no inclination to assault myself…”
I have no inclination to assault myself; it would be of no use. You may do it yourselves if you choose — I refuse. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “Man need not perform any acts or exploits…”
Man need not perform any acts or exploits, but has only to make an intense effort at consciousness. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “If men who do not understand life…”
If men who do not understand life would only approach nearer to the phantoms which alarm them, and would examine them, they would see that they are only phantoms, and not realities. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “Men have but to understand this…”
Men have but to understand this: they must cease to care for material and external matters… let them apply one hundredth part of the energy now used by them in outward concerns to those in which they are free — to the recognition and profession of the truth that confronts them, to the deliverance of themselves and others form the […]
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “Men, attached by habit to the existing order…”
Men, attached by habit to the existing order, shrink from attempting to change it, therefore they agree to consider this doctrine as a mass of revelations and laws that may be accepted without making any change in one’s life: whereas the doctrine… is not a doctrine of rules for men to obey, but unfolds a new life-conception, meant as a […]