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, Life Quotes, Social Service Quotes

Boredom: the desire for desires

Boredom: the desire for desires

A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

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...

Whatever happens to be in style.

Whatever happens to be in style.

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the...

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the...

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...

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked...

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked...

The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The...

The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The...

If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from...

If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from...

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought...

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought...

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a...

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a...

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,...

Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much...

Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much...

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

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...

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 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...

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill.

It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill.

To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should...

To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should...