"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."

- Leo Tolstoy

"We are asleep until we fall in love!"

- Leo Tolstoy

"He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer a great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."

- Leo Tolstoy

"When you love someone, you love the whole person as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be."

- Leo Tolstoy