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“Consciously a man lives on his own account in freedom of willbut he serves as an unconscious instrument in bringing about the historical ends of humanity. An act he has once committed is irrecvocable, and that act of his, coinciding in time with millions of acts of others, has an historical value... 'The hearts of kinds are in the hand of God.' The king is the slave of history... Every action that seems to them an act of their own freewill, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all. ”
― C.S. Lewis

“That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It is when the politician loves neither the public good nor himself, or when his love for himself is limited and is satisfied by the trappings of office, that the public interest is badly served.”
― John F. Kennedy

“Before you get to the place that is calling you, recognize whom you can talk to about your destiny and whom you can’t. Dream killers will”
― T.D. Jakes

“There are two aspects," Alexey Alexandrovitch resumed: "those who take part and those who look on; and love for such spectacles is an unmistakable proof of a low degree of development in the spectator, I admit, but . . .”
― Leo Tolstoy

“And however much the princess was assured that in our time young people themselves must settle their fate, she was unable to believe it, as she would have been unable to believe that in anyone's time the best toys for five-year-old children would be loaded pistols.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.”
― C.S. Lewis

“to believe in something and not live it is dishonest.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Based on your current results, what changes are you going to have to make to ensure that your products and services of tomorrow are exactly what the customers will be wanting at that time?”
― Brian Tracy

“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”
― Mother Teresa

“At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at”
― John C. Maxwell

“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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