"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."

"I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."

"Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself."

"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."

"If you want to be happy, be."

"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."

"And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful."

"Life did not stop, and one had to live."

"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"

"Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself."

"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."

"If you want to be happy, be."

"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."

"And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful."

"Life did not stop, and one had to live."