Leo Tolstoy

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Love those you hate you.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Don’t ever let anyone keep your heart on a shelf just to take it down whenever it is convenient for them to feel.

We don’t fall in love with people because they’re good people. We fall in love with people whose darkness we recognize. You can fall in love with a person for all of the right reasons, but that kind of love can still fall apart. But when you fall in love with a person because your monsters have found a home in them – that’s the kind of love that owns your skin and bones. Love, I am convinced, is found in the darkness. It is the candle in the night.

Love is what we’re born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Love creates an ‘us’ without destroying a ‘me’.

I won’t take anyone down if I crawl tonight. But I still let everyone down when I change in size.

It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.

All we do is drive. All we do is think about the feelings that we hide.

Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love? Can the child within my heart rise above? Can I sail through the changing ocean tides? Can I handle the seasons of my life?

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.

I’ve forever wanted a woman who loves like a soldier and fights like a poet. Always with unfailing faithfulness, always for the yearning in her heart.

Who, being loved, is poor?

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.

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