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There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him...Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive? ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#test #testing #forgiveness

Don't yell at me, listen to me. Don't walk away from me, support me. Don't stop loving me, believe in me. Don't punish me, forgive me. ↗

— Tania Gardana

#relationships #forgiveness

Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you ↗

— Erykah Badu

#love #relationships #friendship

Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#fail #friendship #love #relationships #friendship

I feel a horror for exaggerated love or friendship. It's just too well demonstrated to me that when the moment comes that one asks something, or has need of something, the responce is not worth a biscuit. ↗

— Brian Thompson

#love #relationship #friendship

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. ↗

— Rainbow Rowell

#high-school #love #relationships #sweet #teenage-love

Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#friendship

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#relationships #friendship

One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds? ↗

— May Sarton

#love #pain #peril #relationships #friendship

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#friendship #relationships #religious #friendship