Tough Love Real World Quotes & Sayings

In a wife I would desire / What in whores is always found / The lineaments of gratified desire. — William Blake

I learned that opening myself to my own love and to life's tough loveliness not only was the most delicious, amazing thing on earth but also was quantum. It would radiate out to a cold, hungry world. Beautiful moments heal, as do real cocoa, Pete Seeger, a walk on old fire roads. — Anne Lamott

Good conversation can leave you more exhilarated than alcohol; more refreshed than the theater or a concert. It can bring you entertainment and pleasure; it can help you get ahead, solve problems, spark the imagination of others. It can increase your knowledge and education. It can erase misunderstandings, and bring you closer to those you love. — Dorothy Sarnoff

Rhetoric is communication that attempts to coordinate social action...Its goal is to influence human choices on specific matters that require immediate attention — Gerard Hauser

There's nothing like mixing with woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense. — Thornton Wilder

Gather my leaves,
Twist them into crowns
Let me be the king of your forest
Climb on my branches,
I will seek out your hide
s you sleep beneath the shade
Of my giving tree — Michelle Hodkin

My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad. — John Milton

Opening myself to my own love and to life's tough loveliness not only was the most delicious, amazing thing on earth but also was quantum. It would radiate out to a cold, hungry world. Beautiful moments heal, as do real cocoa, Pete Seeger, a walk on old fire roads. All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth were the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full. You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled. Who knew? — Anne Lamott

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. — Hannah Arendt

Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbour. (1936) — Francis William Aston

As far as drug abuse and all that - listen, this is Hollywood. I don't know how I was able to avoid it, but I'm lucky that I did. — Reagan Gomez-Preston

We love each other because we can't help it. We don't work at it and we don't sacrifice for it. It is easy and all the sweeter to me because it is so undeserved. I discover within a second context that when something just won't work, moving heaven and earth often won't make it work -- and similarly, there are some things that you just can't screw up. I know that I could live without him: I have my own work, my own mission, and my own money. But I don't want to. I really don't want to. We make plans: he will share his strength with me and I will share my imagination with him... — Hope Jahren

Going to the gym on my own I struggle with, but when I'm in there with a teammate or a group of guys, it's the ultimate environment. — James Spithill

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there? — George Bernard Shaw

It's still there- my own heart, cobbled together and a little worse for wear- but it's definitely not all beat out. — Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock