"There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way."

"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good."

"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."

"Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy."

"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."

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

"If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

"He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it"

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

"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."

"Everything I know, I know because of love."

"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began."

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

"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"

"Love those you hate you."

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

"You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love."

"The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness..."

"If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace."

"They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life."

"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."

"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}"