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Family Happiness QUOTES

Family Happiness QUOTES

1 " 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 — such is my idea of happiness. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

2 " I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt it in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

3 " 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 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 - such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire? "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

4 " I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

5 " I suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becoming enslaved to the steady passionless course of time. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

6 " Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

7 " Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of a woman whom we may call B, who is young and happy and has seen nothing as yet of life or of the world. Family circumstances of various kinds brought them together, and he grew to love her as a daughter, and had no fear that his love would change its nature. But he forgot that B was so young, that life was still a May-game to her and that it was easy to fall in love with her in a different way, and that this would amuse her. He made a mistake and was suddenly aware of another feeling, as heavy as remorse, making its way into his heart, and he was afraid. He was afraid that their old friendly relations would be destroyed, and he made up his mind to go away before that happened. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

8 " I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

9 " I can't praise a young lady who is alive only when people are admiring her, but as soon as she is left alone, collapses and finds nothing to her taste--one who is all for show and has no resources in herself "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

10 " I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for that past love which can never return. Who is to blame, I do not know. Love remains, but not the old love; its place remains, but it all wasted away and has lost all strength and substance; recollections are still left, and gratitude; but... "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

11 " So you make a sacrifice!' he threw special emphasis on the last word. 'Well, so do I. What could be better? We complete in generosity--what an example of family happiness! "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

12 " I think it delightful too," I said; "but I am sad just because of the beauty of it all. All is so fair and lovely outside of me, while my own heart is confused and baffled and full of vague and unsatisfied longing. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

13 " I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself had no strength and even no wish to escape. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

14 " My life seemed so wretched, the future so hopeless, the past so black! "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

15 " All at once I felt clearly and calmly that the feeling of that time had gone never to return, like the time itself, and that to bring it back now would be not only impossible, but painful and forced. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

16 " My vague confused dreams became a reality and the reality became an oppressive, difficult, joyless life. All remained the same.
Once it seemed so plain and right that to live for others was happiness; now it has become unintelligible. Why live for others, when life had no attraction even for oneself? "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

17 " Why did you give me a freedom for which I was unfit? Why did you stop teaching me? If you wished it, if you guided me differently, none of all this would happened. I should not now be punished, for no fault at all, by your indifference and even contempt, and you would not have taken from me unjustly all that I valued in life.
Let us be thankful that there is an end of the old emotions and excitements.
That day ended a romance of our marriage. Old feeling became a precious irrecoverable remembrance but a new feeling of love for my kids and their father laid the foundation of a new life and quite different happiness. That life and happiness lasted until to the present time. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

18 " I wanted feeling to guide us in life, and not life to be the guide to feeling. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

19 " Het hinderde me dat hij zijn klaarheid en rust alweer had teruggewonnen terwijl er in mij nog zoveel ergernis was. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness

20 " you have the sweetest of all music in your soul just now. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Family Happiness