Quotes: Leo Tolstoy

"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." 

–– Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian writer 

Source: Nitch, Instagram, October 14, 2024 

via: Sketchbook N 14, 2024, p. 33.

Quotes: Leo Tolstoy

"I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine." 

–– Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian writer 

via: Commonplace Book 2013-2014, 2014, p. 112. 

Quotes: Leo Tolstoy

"The greater your desire to speak, the greater the danger that you'll say something stupid."

–– Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian writer 

via: Sketchbook N 14, 2024, p. 15.

Quotes: Leo Tolstoy

"Life is continual creation, i.e. the formation of new, higher forms ... When existing forms are destroyed, this only means a new form is taking shape, invisible to us. We see what is outside us, but we don't see what is within us ... A caterpillar sees itself shrivel up, but doesn't see the butterfly which flies out of it." 

–– Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian writer 

via: Sketchbook 32, 2022, p. 51.

Quotes 245: Leo Tolstoy

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

–– Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian writer 

via Sketchbook #1, p. 62 

Quotes 9: Leo Tolstoy

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur." 

–– Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian writer