Leo Tolstoy

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

The best stories don’t come from ‘good vs. bad’ but ‘good vs. good.’

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

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It’s a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

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

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

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

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

I’m a different man now. I’m still a romantic, I still believe in love, but when I met Barbara I was looking for it. Now, I don’t know.

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?

To me, obligation is not love. Letting someone be open, honest and free – that’s love. It’s got to come natural and it’s got to be real.

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

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

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

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

When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it.

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

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