Resolutions for a Life Worth Living: Attainable Aspirations Inspired by Great Humans of the Past

Life-tested wisdom on how to live from James Baldwin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Leo Tolstoy, Seneca, Toni Morrison, Walt Whitman, Viktor Frankl, & others 🔶

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Portrait of Leo Tolstoy, 1887

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Good morning

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
Leo Tolstoy

Ettore Tito ( 1859-1941 ) With a Rose in her Lips 1895

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Portrait of Leo Tolstoy as a Ploughman on a Field, 1887

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再掲 呪/ 夏・五

If there was no suffering,
man would not know his limits,
would not know himself.

Lev Tolstoy

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Portrait of Leo Tolstoy, 1887

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For I was inspired to illustrate a scene from "The Gigantic Turnip" story, a Russian folktale written by Aleksei Tolstoy. I especially enjoy the theme of and how there's value in even the smallest among us 🐭

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Portrait of Leo Tolstoy as a Ploughman on a Field, 1887

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Leo Tolstoy barefoot, 1891

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they turned tolstoy into a twink..... <\3

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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
— Leo Tolstoy

🎨 Robin Moline

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These words from Leo Tolstoy brought me to tears.

"I remember once walking to the game store, I saw this Japanese porn game called Muv Luv. I read the entire trilogy and was completely enthralled. That's when I found the motivation to publish War and Peace".

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The original Tolstoy the bin bear from 2007.

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Hometown Cha Cha Cha x Leo Tolstoy
'จงเรียนรู้ว่าในตัวมนุษย์มีอะไรอยู่ อะไรที่ไม่ได้ให้แก่มนุษย์ และมนุษย์อยู่ได้ด้วยอะไร'

มีคนวิเคราะห์ซีรีส์ในเชิงจิตวิทยาใดๆ แล้ว ด้วยความที่ชอบหนังสือเลยขอพูดถึงในมุมนี้บ้าง แน่นอนว่าไม่ใช่วอลเดน555 แต่เป็น What Men Live By ของตอลสตอย /1

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Bertrand Russell Quote 366 with image, n1812
Tolstoy preached with great persuasive force, that the holders of power could be morally regenerated if met by non-resistance, was obviously untrue in Germany after 1933. Clearly Tolstoy was right only
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If anyone is coming to Fidelio next Wednesday (13th), I'll be doing a pre-performance talk in the Ebert Room 6-6.30pm, featuring Tolstoy, the Battle of Austerlitz and this rather magnificent painting, among other things:

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As one candle lights another and thousands of candles are lit, so one heart lights another and so thousands of hearts are lit.

-Lev Tolstoy

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But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace


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