“And at the end of the day, we all just want someone to tell us when we are heading down the wrong path. That is true tough love.” ― Anonymous
“I wish I never fell so deep in love with you and now it ain’t no way we can be friends.” ― Trey Songz
“Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have.” ― Shannon L. Alder
“Tough love means being firm but kind while setting boundaries and sticking to them.” ― Anonymous
“The love that lasts the longest is the love that can never be.” ― S Maugh
“If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.” ― Tom Petty
“Sometimes giving into that tough love is exactly what you need.” ― Anonymous
“Hope is important. It allows you to survive. But there’s a point where tough love is required if you want to change. Action is necessary. It allows you to live.” ― Brittany Burgunder
“Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth.” ― T.F. Hodge
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ― Dr Seuss
“I believe in tough love. But for tough love to work, love must come first. We must love tough to bring out the best in those who lead.” ― Jon Gordon
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were Kahlil Gibran
“When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.” ― Oscar Wilde
“Receiving tough love is never easy, especially when you know the person is right.” ― Anonymous
“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties Jules Renard
“Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.” ― Noam Chomsky
“The worst thing you can do for love is deny it; so when you find that special someone, don’t let anyone or anything to get in your way.” ― Brandi Snyder
“Tough love is what we need to really ask ourselves, “What am I even doing?” Anonymous
“Tough love does not mean to be mean. It’s called tough love because accepting the impossibility of changing someone else’s behavior is tough to do.” ― Anonymous
“There is nothing in the world so wonderful as to love and be loved; there is nothing so devastating as love lost.” ― Larry Latta
“Sometimes you must seem to hurt something in order to do good for it.” ― Susan Cooper
“When we first sort of break in or bust into the house, if you will, there’s some tough love.” ― Thom Filicia
“Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed. You want this music to be soulful, whether you’re giving sweet talk or tough love.” ― James Cook
“By not standing firm and by not exercising tough love, we often cause the figurative ‘death’ of others and sometimes ourselves, our goals, our destiny.” ― Deborah Smith Pegues
“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone – but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.” ― Johnny Depp
“If a hug represented how much I loved you, I would hold you in my arms forever.” ― Mandy Hampton
