6 Leo Tolstoy Quotes on Growth

Leo Tolstoy quotes on growth

45. Quite often a man goes on for years imagining that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.

96. When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity and excitement as before, ...he has out-grown what before used to direct him, ...he must formulate for himself an understanding of life corresponding to his age, and ...be guided by it. ...a similar time must come in the growth and development of humanity...

116. It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.

119. Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

133. True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

138. To seek, always to seek... (Tolstoy's final words).