Below are quotes that resonate, from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘A Calendar Of Wisdom’.
[1]
Always pay close attention to whatever it is you are doing, and never consider anything unworthy of your attention. – Confucius
[2]
Repay evil with good, and you will eliminate from a bad person any pleasure he might receive from doing evil. – Tolstoy
[3]
In the world of morality, everything is more tightly bound together than in the world of the body. Every deception leads to a whole series of further deceptions, and every act of cruelty to a whole series of cruelties. – Tolstoy
[4]
Our conscience is the signpost telling us which way we should go. When people stray from this path, they do one of two things: they either redirect their lives to follow the path indicated by their conscience, or they tell themselves that such a signpost does not exist… You only have to stray from the path of goodness for you to be very soon mired in evil. – Tolstoy
[5]
We are aware of the spiritual, divine principle in our lives in two ways: firstly, through our reason, and, secondly, through love. – Tolstoy
[6]
How can there be happiness when it is acquired at the expense of other people’s happiness? – Rousseau, SC
[7]
It is not how much you know that is important, but what you know. It is possible to know a great many things, but without knowing what you most need to know. – Tolstoy
[8]
Always there is a black spot in our sunshine. It is… the shadow of ourselves. – Carlyle, SRes
[9]
We only truly come alive in ourselves when we live for others. – Tolstoy
[10]
One of the most common and widespread misconceptions is that each of us has our own definite characteristics – good, bad, clever, stupid, warm, cold, etc. But people aren’t like that.
What we can say is that a person is more often good than bad, more often clever than stupid, more often warm than cold and vice versa, but it would be wrong to say about one person that he is always good or clever, or about another that he is always bad or stupid. Yet that is how we always categorize people. And that is wrong. – Tolstoy