9 Leo Tolstoy Quotes on Purpose

Leo Tolstoy quotes on purpose

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

13. The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us.

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39. Go - take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man, and What men live by. When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.

53. The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.

54. People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

117. Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

121. Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

123. Only those live who do good.

138. To seek, always to seek... (Tolstoy's final words).