Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Joy, Gold, Saws

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “Anna Karenina”, p.262, Oxford Paperbacks

• Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Positive, Happiness

• Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Joy, Way, Limitless

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

• The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.
  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.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Real, Ideas, People

• Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life And Death, Evil, Joy

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1921). “A Confession: And, What I Believe”

• Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only-
  then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what the wisdom of humanity,your intellect and your heart tell you: that the meaning of life is to serve the force that sent you into the world.Then life becomes a joy

  Leo Tolstoy

  Heart, Joy, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

• Joy 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 Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

• 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 to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Marriage, Selfish, Men

• Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Sad, Joy, Sorrow

  'War and Peace' (1868-9) bk. 15, ch. 1

• The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Anniversary, Goal, Joy

• Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.

  Leo Tolstoy

  God, Men, Thinking

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”

• 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 time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Fall, Kissing

• When joy disappears, look for your mistake

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Mistake, Joy

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

• But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Grief, Joy, Soul

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Anna Karenina”, p.932, Xist Publishing

• These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered, gleaming in the sunshine among the snowdust quivering in the air, while the smell of freshly baked bread was wafted out of a little window as the loaves were put out. All this together was so extraordinarily wonderful that Levin burst out laughing and crying for joy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Sunshine, Boys, Air

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1978). “Anna Karenina”

• He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Heart, Joy, Possession

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.25, Courier Corporation

• The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour. He will strive to give the fruit of that supreme spiritual force which passes through him to the greatest number of people, because this conveying of the feelings that have been born in him to the greatest number of people is his joy and his reward. The artist of the future will not even understand how it is possible for an artist, whose joy consists in the widest dissemination of his works, to give these works only in exchange for a certain payment.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Spiritual, Artist, Numbers

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