Quotes tagged ‘Tough Love’

“For a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it’s not. Now the most important thing about me is that I’m old.”

— Nora Ephron, amazon.com

“He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn’t love me anymore, and it’s not the end of the world.”

— Jennifer Weiner, amazon.com

“For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one's feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again—still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions—pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all inter…”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com

“Life moves on and so should we.”

— Spencer Johnson, amazon.com

“Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you...”

— Pablo Neruda, poemhunter.com

“There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love—it's sort of undeniable.”

— Piper Perabo, getinspired365.com

“They say being in love and loving someone are two different things, right? I mean, you love your best friend, but you love your husband, right? Falling in love with someone is easy. It's loving when the newness has worn off, when life gets tough, when things get in the way, when physical passion is…”

— Mia Asher, amazon.com

“SELFLESS LOVE. If you have a special person in your life, but you find yourselves arguing, irritated and/or fighting out of the blue… you both need to try to step back and be selfless and think of the other person... with no ego of your own. No ego. We are ALL dealing with our own tough issues. We m…”

— José N. Harris, marianna68.com

“In a dating and courtship relationship, I would not have you spend five minutes with someone who belittles you, one who is constantly critical of you, one who is cruel at your expense and may even call it humor. Life is tough enough without the person who is supposed to love you leading the assault…”

— Jeffrey R. Holland, lds.org

“Many of us choose relationships of affection and care that will never become loving because they feel safer. The demands are not as intense as loving requires. The risk is not as great. So many of us long for love but lack the courage to take risks. Even tough we are obsessed with the idea of love t…”

— Bell Hooks, huffingtonpost.com

“And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

— Dale Carnegie, huffingtonpost.com

“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other. Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.”

— 500 Days of Summer, amazon.com

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.”

— Noah, amazon.com

“Well that's what we do, we fight... You tell me when I am being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you are a pain in the ass. Which you are, 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a two second rebound rate, and then you're back doing the next pain-in-the-ass…”

— Noah, amazon.com

“I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.”

— Art Williams, amazon.com

“If it's important to you, you'll find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse.”

— Jim Rohn, amazon.com

“Tough love is real love. Why? Because it's never easy. It hurts the giver far more than the receiver.”

— Bobby W. Miller, successories.com

“BREAKING NEWS: The Pity Train has just derailed at the intersection of Suck It Up and Move On, and crashed into We All Have Problems, before coming to a complete stop at Get The Hell Over It.”

— someecards, someecards.com

“Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship.”

— Shannon L. Alder, oldquotes.com