
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.
– Leo Tolstoy
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- Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment.Sebastopol by Leo Tolstoy – Leo Tolstoy
- The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind. – Leo Tolstoy
- A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul. – Leo Tolstoy
- Our response to the external conditions of our lives can be greatly altered by our perceptions of those conditions. – Kitt Weagant
- Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present. – Leo Tolstoy
- A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking. – Michael R LeGault
- If every Christian will have an active civil position, he can become a reformer in his country – Sunday Adelaja
- Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor. – Derrick A Bell
- Being a pioneering reformer is all fine and good, but it does leave one terribly in want of agood party! – Jenny Holiday
- The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience. – Leo Tolstoy
- He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again. – Teodor Flonta
- Neither can you explain yourself to me. Nor can I explain myself to you. You have your sadness and I have mine. – Avijeet Das
- The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable. – Karl Rahner
- True life is lived when tiny changes occur. – Leo Tolstoy
- All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade. – Leo Tolstoy
- The true meaning of Christ’s teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions. – Leo Tolstoy
- To love life is to love God. – Leo Tolstoy
- If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals. – Leo Tolstoy
- Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life. – Leo Tolstoy
- All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. – Leo Tolstoy
- Upon examination of a people’s history, beware the story teller’s motives. – TF Hodge
- I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
- The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. – Raymond Holliwell
- I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we’re about to do something harmful, to someone else. – Margaret Atwood
- Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent. – Leo Tolstoy
- He remembered his mother’s love for him, and his family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him seemed impossible. – Leo Tolstoy
- I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body. – Leo Tolstoy
- In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down. – Leo Tolstoy
- Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. – Leo Tolstoy
- But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. – Leo Tolstoy
- One must be cunning and wicked in this world. – Leo Tolstoy
- Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. – Leo Tolstoy
- The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him – six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs. – Leo Tolstoy
- I felt a wish never to leave that room – a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change. – Leo Tolstoy
- Everything depends on upbringing. – Leo Tolstoy
- She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was. – Leo Tolstoy
- Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There’s no girl who hasn’t gone through that. And it’s all so unimportant! – Leo Tolstoy
- It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself. – Leo Tolstoy
- Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be. – Leo Tolstoy
- If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. – Leo Tolstoy