Leo Tolstoy

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

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.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

Drownin’ in the sea of love where everyone would love to drown.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

I’d tell you how beautiful you look today, but there’s not enough time before sunset to tell how you set fire to a sundress; my mouth is overflowing from yesterday.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

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

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

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Women should serve men. Men should serve women. Any house of peace is full of servants.

True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

The moonlight melts into lace across your thighs. Unbridled passion, an Elliott Smith vinyl, and the intimate place of you.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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?