Leo Tolstoy II 

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

I've 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.

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

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

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

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

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...

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

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

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.

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