Leo Tolstoy

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible….except by getting off his back.

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget…

If you want to be happy, be.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

I’m a wanderess, I’m a one night stand. Don’t belong to no city, don’t belong to no man.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Every heart has its own skeletons.

I have you in one world, but I need you in two: the hands and the heart, just one won’t do.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation… and that is called loving. Well then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Sorry that I can’t believe that anybody ever really starts to fall in love with me.

Loving him is like trying to hold onto an armful of balloons. Maybe I need someone to come along and pop them.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon – it’s time to cash in!

It doesn’t matter if you have a valentine or not – just love yourself and be your own.

I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love.

Sometimes the heart is deceiving.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.