Leo Tolstoy

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Every heart has its own skeletons.

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

Which is worse? The wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

If you love someone set them free. If they come back, they’re yours; if they don’t, they never were.

Love is only one fine star away.

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

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

I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

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

I’m not something to butter up and taste when you get bored.

Thunder only happens when it’s raining; players only love you when they’re playing.

There’s nothing more romantic than getting down in the dirt and plowing through the weeds, brambles, thickets, and dry land of life with someone just as willing by your side.

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

And now my neck is open wide, begging for a fist around it. Already choking on my pride, so there’s no use crying about it.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Love is the absence of judgment.

True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend.

When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, ’cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.