#promises

He was a man, he always performed his promises. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking his word. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#promises #death

My letters! all dead paper, mute and white! And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the string And let them drop down on my knee to-night. This said, -- he wished to have me in his sight Once, as a friend: this fixed a day in spring To come and touch my hand ... a simple thing, Yet I wept for it! -- this, ... the paper's light ... Said, Dear I love thee; and I sank and quailed As if God's future thundered on my past. This said, I am thine -- and so its ink has paled With lying at my heart that beat too fast. And this ... O Love, thy words have ill availed If, what this said, I dared repeat at last! ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#friendship #letters #longing #love #promises

I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#love #promises #self-esteem #self-love #life

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#life #promises #life

Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. ↗

— John Green

#promises #love

This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#promises #obedience

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's? ↗

— King Abdullah II

#compromises #concessions #during #freedom #gifts

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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