#loving

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#cannot #faults #friend #friendship #him

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#letting-go #love #loving #separating #separation

The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth. ↗

— Chief Seattle

#earth #giving #loving #respect #responsibility

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#accepted #against #beings #between #closest

But why do you have to keep your distance from me, why can’t you see me, talk to me like a real person…like Drew, not some kind of distant non-friend.” “Non-friend?” Drew smiled drily at my choice of words. “I like the sound of that better than ‘friends’, Summer. It probably describes us best.” - Perfect Summer ↗

— Kailin Gow

#friendship #kailin-gow #love #loving-summer #perfect-summer

This is not a letter but my arms about you for a brief moment. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#love

Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friendship #letting-go #loving-yourself #moving-on #negative-people

How about we call it lovingly fucking your brains out? ↗

— R.K. Lilley

#lovingly #love

It makes no sense to try to extend a friendship that was only meant to be a season into a lifetime. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friendship #growth #letting-go #letting-go-of-negative-people #loving-yourself

Let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the LORD. ↗

— Anonymous

#god #justice #know #loving-kindness #righteous