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Today Tough Love Quotes ideas
“I like not only to be loved but also to be told I am loved.”
“I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
@Mother Teresa
“Women hope men will change after marriage but they don’t; men hope women won’t change but they do.”
@Bettina Arndt
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”
@Anatole France
“The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity – love. And the story of love is not important – what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.”
@Helen Hayes
“What you are is a fucking tragedy, Simon Snow. You literally couldn’t be a bigger mess.” He tries to kiss me, but I pull back- “And you like that?” “I love it.” He says “Why?” “Because we match.”
@Rainbow Rowell
“Love is always being given where it is not required.”
@E. M. Forster
“The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye…until we meet again”
@Jimi Hendrix
“Love is the expression of one’s values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.”
@Ayn Rand
“I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman’s inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman’s fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.” “Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
@Jane Austen
“If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?”
@Aberjhani
“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don’t let it spoil you, for it’s wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can’t have the one you want.”
@Louisa May Alcott
“Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.”
@Cesare Pavese
“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
@Homer
“Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.”
@R. D. Laing
“I don’t want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.”
@Nina LaCour
“We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.”
@Mignon McLaughlin
“I don’t love you anymore”, she whispered. “I don’t love you at all.” His throat closed. “It’s all right, sweetheart. I love you enough for both of us.”
@Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.”
@Henry Ward Beecher
“His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, “I think,” he says, “my heart is going to explode,” and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever. Because this. This is everything.”
@Tahereh Mafi
Love is Hard Quotes
“Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.”
@Arthur Rubinstein
“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love is to live by it.”
@Victor Hugo
“Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.”
@Miguel de Unamuno
“To love is to recognize yourself in another.”
@Eckhart Tolle
“The loving personality seeks not to control, but to nurture, not to dominate, but to empower.”
@Gary Zukav
“Okay. Then…I can talk. Ask me something.” “Okay.” He laughs shakily in my ear. “Why is your heart racing Tris?” I cringe and say, “Well, I…I barely know you. I barely know you and I’m crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?”… “Maybe you were cut out for Candor,” he says, “because you’re a terrible liar.”
@Veronica Roth
“There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.”
@Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
@William Wilberforce
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
@Robert Frost
“The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”
@Karl Lagerfeld
“When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”
@Martin Buber
“She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her… I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her…”
@Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.”
@Michel de Montaigne
“I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?”
@Jess C. Scott
“The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.”
@Pearl Bailey
Hard to Love Quotes
“But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.”
@Veronica Roth
“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”
@Shana Abe
“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.”
@Andy Warhol
“All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.”
@Andre Breton
“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”
@Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”
@Leonardo da Vinci
“I’d love to, she finally said,”on one condition.” I steadied myself, hoping it wasn’t something too awful. “Yes?” “You have to promise that you won’t fall in love with me.” I knew she was kidding me by the way she laughed, and I couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. Sometimes, I had to admit, Jamie had a pretty good sense of humor. I smiled and gave her my word.”
@Nicholas Sparks
“Gamble everything for love, if you’re a true human being.”
@Rumi
“Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.”
@Zayn Malik
“Love brings to life whatever is dead around us.”
@Franz Rosenzweig
“First best is falling in love. Second, best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.”
@Maya Angelou
“It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”
@Miguel de Unamuno
“It has made me better loving you … it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter.”
— Henry James
“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”
@Christopher Marlowe
“You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.”
@Rainbow Rowell
Hard Love Quotes
“Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.”
@Maggie Stiefvater
“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”
@Sylvia Plath
“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”
@Shannon L. Alder
“I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.”
@Sarah Kay
“Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.”
@Author-Poet Aberjhani
“I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.”
— The Notebook
“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.”
@Mandy Hale
“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.”
— Bob Marley
“Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way”
@Pablo Neruda
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato
“I want love to conquer all. But love can’t conquer anything. It can’t do anything on it’s own.
It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.”@David Levithan
“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”
— Virginia Woolf
“How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?”
@Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
— Charles Dickens
“Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you.”
@William P. Young
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
— Giuseppe Verdie
“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”
@Jane Austen
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle
“Kissing – and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing – is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.”
@Drew Barrymore
“Loving you never was an option. It was a necessity.”
— Truth Devour
“Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?”
@Becca Fitzpatrick
“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
— William Goldman
“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”
@Caitlyn Siehl
“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.”
— Angelita Lim
Tough Love Parenting Quotes
“Don’t ever think I fell for you or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.”
@Toni Morrison
“You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me.”
— Cassandra Clare
“Let me die the moment my love dies. Let me not outlive my own capacity to love. Let me die still loving, and so, never die.”
@Mary Zimmerman
“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
@F. Scott Fitzgerald
“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”
@Kristin Hannah
“But if I hadn’t fallen, I wouldn’t have met you.”
@Becca Fitzpatrick
“You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn’t know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life. After they were gone? That was all you thought about. Day and night.”
@J.R. Ward
“I want everything with you, America. I want the holidays and the birthdays, the busy season and lazy weekends. I want peanut butter fingertips on my desk. I want inside jokes and fights and everything. I want a life with you.”
@Kiera Cass
“I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.”
@Simone Elkeles
“to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
@Cassandra Clare
“She wasn’t exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.”
@Nicholas Sparks
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