Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, to yielding.

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!

*It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.*

Remember, the easy road often becomes hard, and the hard road often becomes easy.

Cuando no se ama demasiado no se ama lo suficiente

Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.
And, to sink in it, should you burden love;
Too great oppression for a tender thing.
Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
If love be rough with you, be rough
with love;
Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.

If there's no love, what then?

cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.

Love doesn't always come in convenient packages.

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

Her love had reached a point where now at last she was beginning to be unhappy, to be desperate.

the futility of something is not always (in love and in politics) a sufficient argument against it.

Life teaches us the right path is rarely the easy one.