Quotes About Trust

A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

I taught him, 'he quavered, "to trust in love. I said:'when love comes, that is reality.' I said: 'Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!

She had deemed it unwise to reveal her soul.

I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me

Some of these proverbs sound as if they come from Scripture (and many people believe they do), like this one: 'God helps those who help themselves'-which is likely anti-biblical. God helps those who rely on him.

To live by worry is to live against reality

If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.

If I, as a child, claim that something awful has happened—that someone has done something terrible to me—and everyone around me acts as if nothing is the matter, then either I must be crazy, or all of them are. And when you're a kid and your life depends on all these people, there is no choice: of course, I must be crazy.

In healthy development, trust evolves. How do we decide whether to trust? We share a feeling with someone and watch their reaction; if the response feels safe, if it is caring, noncritical, non-abusive, the first step of trust has developed. For trust to grow, this positive response must become part of a relatively reliable pattern… Trust develops with consistency over time.

It's only a paper moon,Sailing over a cardboard sea,But it wouldn't be make-believeIf you believed in me.

Ting-Tang stopped moving, although he did turn his head to look at Audun. "You've really never eaten anyone?" "Never!" said Audun. "My wife would never forgive me if I did.

Honor bright! Fair play is a jewel!

You're afraid of everything. And I know it. And that's why you don't like me.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

That's the best thing about friendship. It is a gift that cannot be lost. Only thrown away.

love does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it does not behave improperly, it does not seek its own advantage, it is not easily provoked, it bears no grudge, delights not in evil but rejoices only in the truth. It shelters all, trusts all, always hopes, always endures. Love is everlasting.

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

I shall take the liberty of praying for you." – "Glad to hear it. But who will listen to you?

He should know no one intimately, least of all a woman.