Leo Tolstoy: Quotes about love (page 2)

“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”

“But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.”

“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.”

“Love those you hate you.”

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

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

“Everything I know, I know because of love.”

“We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.”

“Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.”

“We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.”

“There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.”

“One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.”

“There are as many kinds of love, as there are hearts”

“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees…”

“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”

“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling.”

“Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.”

“And where love ends, hate begins”

“I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.”