Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that 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.
More Quotes from Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy:
I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible ... and to serve others as much as possible.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Happiness Quotes, Joy & Excitement Quotes, Life Quotes, Place Quotes, Service QuotesHere's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
R. A. Salvatore
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.
Clara Schumann
One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.
Norton Juster