Leo Tolstoy said this quote

“ As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted only when there is something prepared to paint it on, so carnal love is only legitimate, reasonable, and lasting when it is based on the respect and love of one human being for another. ”

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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.

~ Leo Tolstoy

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

~ Leo Tolstoy

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}

~ Leo Tolstoy

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.

~ Leo Tolstoy