“He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart.”

— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1878), Part I, Ch. 9

About Leo Tolstoy

1828 – 1910

Russian novelist and moral philosopher, author of 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina'.

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.”

“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”

“Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.”

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”

“Love is a thing full of anxious fears.”

“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”

“So long as we love life for itself, we seldom dread the losing it.”

“Happiness lies in breadth of heart.”