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

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

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

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

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

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

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”

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 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

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

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