Leo Tolstoy

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

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

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.

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.

I can’t help this awful energy. God damn right, you should be scared of me.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

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

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

True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend.

If you wanna break these walls down, you’re gonna get bruised.

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

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

I knew from that first moment we met. It was not love at first sight exactly, but – familiarity. Like oh, hello, it’s you. It’s going to be you. Game over.

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

You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you.

I never thought love could be so deep, so wide, so open, so full, so elevating! Such a teacher! Thank you for teaching me, growing me, deepening me!!

I think… if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.