Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.
Leo TolstoyRead
In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.
Interpretation
True comfort in sorrow comes only from love and faith, especially in light of Christ's compassion.
Tolstoy emphasizes that in moments of deep human sorrow, the only sources of true comfort are love and faith. He suggests that when we reflect on the compassion that Christ has for humanity, we realize that no sorrow is insignificant or trifling, as every heartache is worthy of compassion and understanding.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a memorial service to emphasize the importance of love and faith in times of grief.
Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.
Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!" thought Pierre. "And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor β such is my idea of happiness.
A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.
True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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