44 Quotes About Tough-love

Stop breaking your heart. Learn to love people for who they are and not how you imagined them to be.

Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship. The moment you do is when you have reduced your loved one's affections to a daily biological question: Should I take a dump here or wait till I get home?

[B]y not standing firm and by not exercising tough love, we often cause the figurative “death” of others and sometimes ourselves, our goals, our destiny.

Pain is weakness leaving your body

When someone is hard on you it may have very little to do with you.

I mean, most parents would be proud of a kid like that - good-lookin' and smart and everything, but they gave in to him all the time. He kept trying to make someone say 'No' and they never did. They never did. That was what he wanted. For somebody to tell him 'No.' To have somebody lay down the law, set the limits, give him something solid to stand on. That's what we all want, really.

One cannot prevent abuse through discipline, when abuse and discipline feel exactly the same.

Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love...

It can’t be done for you; it must be done by you.