Quotes from Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

Love them that hate you, but you can't love those you hate.

How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!

Love them that hate you, but you can't love them whom you hate.

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}

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.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

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

She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it ourselves, and we do not complain of it.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.