Love and Sorrow

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“If you want to be happy, be.”
― Tolstoy Leo

“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“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 one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina