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

Quote by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Topics: Generosity Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Joy Quotes, Life Quotes, Social Service Quotes

If you want to be happy, be.

If you want to be happy, be.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by...

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by...

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of...

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of...

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

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

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state,...

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state,...

Boredom: the desire for desires

Boredom: the desire for desires

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but...

In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but...

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is...

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is...

Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

The more is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they...

The more is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they...

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological...

The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological...

In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men...

In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men...

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which...

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which...

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body.

Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of...

One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of...

I kind of like things slightly out of tune. It makes me feel... intoxicated almost......

I kind of like things slightly out of tune. It makes me feel... intoxicated almost......