Leo Tolstoy

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it. – Vronksy (Anna Karenina)

They’ve got no idea what happiness is, they don’t know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us–there is no life.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly (Anna Karenina)

I have simply found a way of loving through whatever absences or dejections have fallen like tree branches in my path.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Love is only one fine star away.

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

I stopped believing in love at first sight. I think you go through that wonderful love stage, but when it gets hard, you need a little bit more.

To be fully seen by somebody, then and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Sometimes the heart is deceiving.

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.

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

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

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

Love those you hate you.

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.