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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It takes years to build trust and only seconds to destroy it.
Unknown
The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.
Heather Brewer
Betrayal can only happen if you love.
John Le Carre
I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.
Steve Maraboli
The trust has broken down. It will take some time to change attitudes and attitudes are going to be needed to develop trust.
Jens Stoltenberg
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
Stanley Baldwin
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Stephen King
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold
Forgiveness is the only way to heal ourselves and be free from the past.
Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness is the final form of acceptance.
Unknown
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair.
Eric Felten
Loyalty is the strongest glue which makes a relationship last for a lifetime.
Mario Puzo
Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.
Ada Velez-Boardley
Loyalty is the strongest bond between two people, and it is not something that can be broken easily.
Unknown
Loyalty is the foundation of any relationship, and without it, the relationship will crumble.
Unknown
Loyalty is a two-way street. If I'm asking for it from you, then you're getting it from me.
Harvey Specter
Loyalty is a characteristic trait. Those who have it, give it free of charge.
Unknown
Loyalty is the key to any successful relationship. If you can't be loyal, then you're not worth being with.
Unknown
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
Tennessee Williams
The only thing necessary for the persistence of evil is for enough good people to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiveness is giving someone another chance to make things right.
Tony Robbins
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.
Elizabeth Gilbert
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
Henry L. Stimson
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Henry Ford
Betrayal is the ultimate salt in the wound.
Unknown
The most painful thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.
Unknown
Betrayal is the deepest wound inflicted upon the heart.
Unknown
Betrayal is the only truth that pays.
Unknown
Betrayal is the breaking or violation of a presumptive contract, trust, or confidence that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals, between organizations or between individuals and organizations.
Unknown
Betrayal is the ultimate betrayal.
Evan Hunter
It is better to have an enemy who honestly says they hate you than to have a friend who's putting you down secretly.
Unknown
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.
John Marsden
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey
True friends are always together in spirit.
L.M. Montgomery
The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't. But, in the end, they're the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself.
Carrie Bradshaw
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Ernest Hemingway
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The biggest problem with communication is we don't listen to understand. We listen to reply.
Stephen Covey
The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding.
Neena Gupta
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.
Christine Feehan
Betrayal is the only truth that pays for treachery.
Francis Bacon
The most important thing in a friendship is trust. Without it, even the strongest friendship can fall apart.
Unknown
Friendship is not about whom you have known the longest...It's about who came, and never left your side.
Unknown
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
William Shakespeare
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love, and loyalty.
Zig Ziglar
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth-telling, truth-speaking, truth-living, and truth-loving.
James E. Faust
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
James Altucher
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash
Honesty is the best image.
Tom Wilson
Honesty is the highest form of intimacy.
Norman Cousins
Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them.
Stephen Richards
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
Promises are the sweetest lies.
Unknown
Promises are like pie crusts, they are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift
Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day.
German Proverb
Promises are like the butterfly, which disappear after beautiful hover.
Unknown
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.
Unknown
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
Arthur Miller
The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
Aldrich Ames
Betrayal is the ultimate form of selfishness.
Unknown
The worst feeling in the world is knowing you've been used and lied to by someone you trusted.
Unknown
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
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