Leo Tolstoy

Music is the shorthand of emotion

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

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

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

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

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

My love rumbles like the sternum of a lion. Be mindful of the beast you stir up.

A happy love needs to be reciprocated.

Spread love everywhere you go let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Sometimes I feel like a kid wanting nothing more than to squeeze you tight and call you mine.

I’m well acquainted with villains that live in my head.

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

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache!

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

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.

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

True love does not leave you a choice.

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.

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.

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.