#friendship

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#heartbreak #inspirational #friendship

Well, do as you think best. That's every man's right and duty. But for me, I pledge you now I will not surrender one grain of my rights. What I took, I took and by God, I'll keep it, too. Take her home tomorrow, Archie, and never look back to watch what I do, for you know it before. I would not give him one knigh who had confided himself to me and none other, much less you. Only over my dead body," said Hotspur hardily, eye to eye with the friend he had made under Homildon Hill, "will King Henry ever claim you as his prisoner. ↗

— Edith Pargeter

#friendship #friendship

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#friends #interpret #our #ourselves #take

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. ↗

— Jane Austen

#business #does #ever #friendship #hardly

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#ever #friendship #i #loyalty #me

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins. ↗

— Alvin Dark

#forgotten #friendships #game

Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#poetry #relationships #rivalry #anger