Thoughtful Wisdom for Every Day: 365 Days of Love, Kindness, Healing, Faith, and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy, Peter Sekirin (Translator)

Inspirational Wisdom for Every Day in a Classic Daybook— "An excellent gift . . . A fine inspirational" ( Midwest Book Review)
 
During the last years of his life, Leo Tolstoy kept one book invariably on his desk, read and reread it to his family, and recommended it to all his a compendium of wise thoughts gathered over the course of a decade from his wide‑ranging readings in philosophy and religion, and from his own spiritual meditations.
 
Thoughtful Wisdom for Every Day comprises Tolstoy’s own most essential ideas about spirituality and what it is to live a good life. Designed to be a cycle of daily readings, this book offers thoughts and aphorisms for every day, following a succession of themes repeated each month—such as God, the soul, desire, faith, our passions, humility, inequality, evil, truth, happiness, and the blessings of love.
 
Comforting, challenging, and inspiring, this is a spiritual treasure trove and a book of great warmth.

384 pages, Hardcover

Published July 20, 2021

About the author

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.

His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reviews

[Emily Kidd · Rating 2 out of 5]

For every good line or quote (which became repetitive), there was something so off the wall and just objectively wrong to us in today’s culture that it’s just not worth saddling yourself down with for a whole year.

[Gab Salvino · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a nice everyday quick read that allowed me to look forward to something daily. I appreciated the fact that each page was different with different purposes. It poses reflection which was nice too. I can also start it back up whenever since there is no true story line - just everyday thoughts to keep me in alignment!

[Lisa Lou · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 Stars

[Mark · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hands down one of the best.