Edith

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.”
― Yukio Mishima, After the Banquet

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment