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The historical significance of urban centers
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The role of urban centers in shaping society
To quote Tolstoy “If you want to be happy, be.”
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According to Tolstoy, “The most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was a Russian writer who is considered one of ...
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Although Tolstoy writes, a common and generally accepted delusion is that everyone can be qualified in some particular way — said to be kind, wicked, stupid, energetic, apathetic, and so on. “People are not like that,” explained Tolstoy, “we may say of a man that he is more often kind than cruel,...
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"Human beings are like rivers; the water is one and the same in all of them but every river is narrow in some places, flows swifter in others; here it is broad, there still, or clear, or cold, or muddy or warm."
Every person bears the germs of every human quality, and now manifests...
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Tolstoy wrote in The Emperor’s Three Questions,
"Remember that there is only one important time, and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you wi...
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"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 having it done to them; then work w...
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The quote with which Tolstoy opens Anna Karenina might describe people, but for businesses it's the opposite: All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape compet...
A happy life is full of positive emotions. In particular:
"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes."
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