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.

If you feel pain, you’re alive.  If you feel another’s pain, you’re a human being.

Leo (Count Lev Nikolayevich) Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian writer.  Many consider him to be one the world’s greatest authors of all-time.