Quotes About Trust

There may be no better way to clear the diary of engagements than to wonder who among our acquaintances would make the trip to the hospital bed.

A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.

We should add: it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk; it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love.

The accusations we make of our lovers make no particular sense. We would utter such unfair things to no one else on earth. But our wild charges are a peculiar proof of intimacy and trust, a symptom of love itself—and in their own way a perverted manifestation of commitment. Whereas we can say something sensible and polite to any stranger, it is only in the presence of the lover we wholeheartedly believe in that can we dare to be extravagantly and boundlessly unreasonable. A

their loyalty to each other deepened by their ever-increasing disloyalty towards everyone else.

Hopper invites us to feel empathy with the woman in her isolation. She seems dignified and generous, only perhaps a little too trusting, a little naive—as if she has knocked against a hard corner of the world. Hopper puts us on her side, the side of the outsider against the insiders. The figures in Hopper's art are not opponents of home per se; it is simply that in a variety of undefined ways, home appears to have betrayed them, forcing them out into the night or onto the road.

We should add: it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk; it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love. Eventually

It is precisely when we hear little from our partner which frightens, shocks, or sickens us that we should begin to be concerned, for this may be the surest sign that we are being gently lied to or shielded from the other's imagination, whether out of kindness or from a touching fear of losing our love. It may mean that we have, despite ourselves, shut our ears to information that fails to conform to our hopes—hopes which will thereby be endangered all the more. Rabih

the truth is that being yourself... fully yourself around another human being is a treat that you should probably spare anyone that you claim to love

We should add: it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk; it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt.

Friends afford us a change to express our deepest selves, and that the conversations we have with them are a privileged forum in which to say what we really think and, by extension and with no mystical allusion, be who we really are.

Chi pronuncia parole d'amore è come chi lancia un messaggio in codice con una trasmittente difettosa, senza mai essere sicuro di cosa viene captato (e, ciò nonostante, come un dente di leone che libera infinite spore delle quali una minima parte si riproduce, quel fortuito, ottimistico tentativo di telecomunicazione va compiuto - fiducia nel servizio postale).

The man who shouts every time he loses his house keys is betraying a beautiful but rash faith in a universe in which keys never go astray.

Wat hield deze liefdespermanentie in? Een zeker geloof in de liefde van de ander, dat zonder onmiddellijk bewijs of teken van de belangstelling van de geliefde in stand kon blijven, het geloof dat de partner, hoewel voor het weekend in Milaan of Wenen, niet bezig was een cappuccino of Sachertorte te nuttigen met een liefdesrivaal, het geloof dat een stilte gewoon een stilte was en niet een aanwijzing dat de liefde ter ziele was.

ai nevoie de o anumit? for?? ca s? plângi, de încrederea c? pân? la urm? o s?-È›i poÈ›i st?vili lacrimile.

It's the permanent female problem, whether or not to trust a man when he's seducing. You may like the man without trusting him, but one thing you want to avoid is getting hurt again.

Cynicism is too easy, and it gets you nowhere.

bir iliÅŸkinin baÅŸar?s?n? s?rf çiftin beraber ne kadar mutlu olduÄŸuna bakarak deÄŸil, her bir partnerin bir iliÅŸkide olmama fikrini ne kadar dert ettiÄŸini de göz önünde bulundurarak deÄŸerlendirmek gerekir.

Bu ça??n garipliklerinden biri, arkadaÅŸl?k kurman?n en kolay yolunun genelde kar??n?zdakinden soyunmas?n? istemek olmas?.

It is a quirk of the age that the easiest way to start a friendship with someone is generally by asking them to get undressed.

The libertine position denies any inherent or logical link between loving someone and needing to be unfailingly sexually loyal to them.

Love stories begin not when we fear someone may be unwilling to see us again but when they decide they would have no objection to seeing us all the time; not when they have every opportunity to run away but when they have exchanged solemn vows promising to hold us, and be held captive by us, for life.

Marriage, to Rabih, feels like the high point of a daring path to total intimacy; proposing has all the passionate allure of shutting one's eyes and jumping off a steep cliff, wishing and trusting that the other will be there to catch one.

she knows, better than most, that there is no one more likely to destroy us than the person we marry.