Leo Tolstoy

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

Everything depends on upbringing.

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

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

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

They are different now than they were. My mother never had to say she was a queen to be one. I instinctively knew. So it makes sense now that I am sorely confused by the women who try to convince me with words.

I’m only ever in two places – with you or on the way.

When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy; where before there was fear, now there is courage; where before in your life there was awkwardness, now there is a rhythm of grace and gracefulness; where before you used to be jagged, now you are elegant and in rhythm with your self. When love awakens in your life, it is like a rebirth, a new beginning.

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.

O ’tis love, ’tis love, ’tis love that makes the world go round!

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

I’m fine with the ups and downs in our story as long as the theme is love.

There is no remedy for love, but to love more.

The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point at which we shut down on life.

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

My heart must be bigger than my brain – blocking it out of all my decisions, so that I cannot think past the way I feel.

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill, what never dies. Nor can Spirits ever be divided that love and live in the same Divine Principle; the Root and Record of their Friendship. If Absence be not death, neither is theirs. Death is but Crossing the World, as Friends do the Seas; They live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is Omnipresent. In this Divine Glass, they see Face to Face; and their Converse is Free, as well as Pure. This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal.

I’m a different man now. I’m still a romantic, I still believe in love, but when I met Barbara I was looking for it. Now, I don’t know.

If your love is not as strong as a tidal wave, I will not be moved.