What does this quote by Leo Tolstoy mean?

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Love, for Tolstoy, is how we truly know anything. We understand most deeply the people and the things we are willing to love.

Russian novelist of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and a searching moral voice on love and change.

This line is among the quotes by Leo Tolstoy that readers return to on love — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.

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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

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