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.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy/ Leo Tolstoy (Russian moral thinker, philosopher, social reformer and writer).
I remember the times of reading Tolstoy books…
As I can see, I have a lot to learn from his thoughts and I like the happy marriage sentence. I would like to do it someday. :-)
Me too, it was in high school, and I remember crying and laughing wholeheartedly whilst reading it :) …Russian literature speaks so much about our trials, questions, doubts and triumphs, it is so profoundly human! and pertains to the entire humanity, I think…we can all learn from it, no matter when or where we were born.