Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

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.

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

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

Ive always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

Theyve got no idea what happiness is, they dont know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, make it so that I am at peace.

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Its hard to love a woman and do anything.

Love those you hate you.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

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

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Im like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe hes cold, and his clothes are torn, and hes ashamed, but hes not unhappy.

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

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for ones neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.