"Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins."

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Source : Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1118, Vintage

Leo Tolstoy

#Thinking Quotes #Path Quotes #Lost Quotes

“Money is like manure; itâ€™s not worth a thing unless itâ€™s spread around.”
“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”
“I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.”
“I am a human being. I am not an actor.”
“democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.”
“Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life.”
“God points to the peaceful attitude of suffering people to teach others about Himself.”
“Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.”

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