"Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness












I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

More Leo Tolstoy quotes
"The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.
"Happiness is pleasure without regret
"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in ...
"Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
"Mento mori—remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If...
"Seize the moments of happiness, Love and be Loved!That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly!
"Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the ...
"Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
"If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found ...
"Toate familiile fericite se aseamănă între ele. Fiecare familie nefericită este nefericită în felul ei.
"They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.
"Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.
"I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of be...