"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life."
― Leo Tolstoy
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Good
More From Leo Tolstoy
- "In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
- "Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself."
- "If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state."
More In Good
- "The desire to get married, which – I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women – is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge – which is to be single again."― Nora Ephron
- "If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are."― James Allen
- "In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by."― Lucille Ball