He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.
“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.”
“But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.”
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should 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}”
“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'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.”
“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”
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”
“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
“Fear is all in the mind”