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Quotes About Trust

What I'm talking about is how we maintain our ethics and moral compass when we're in a group. Why? Because conflict is inevitable, and at some point one person will abuse his or her power over another person.
~ Rosalind Wiseman
It'll all come right. Because, of course, I do believe...I believe - I believe in everything...sun, moon, stars, in seasons - trees, flowers - people, music, life...yes, in life.
~ Rosamond Lehmann
The fact is, one shouldn't go to parties when one is in love. It makes one act aloof and superior and everyone distrusts you.
~ Rosamond Lehmann
Of course Lily had agreed. She would have agreed to virtually anything Sharon requested, to please her, to allay her fears. Always there was something satisfying, even exciting, about a secret with someone both strong-willed and helpless-seeming like Sharon.
~ Rosamond Smith
I presented this game to one of the accomplishment groups after we had been working together for several months, and I gave them the choice, collectively, to fill out the phrase, so they could set the ante for themselves. Together they decided that "sex" was the only word in the entire English language worth putting in the blank. So, "Have the Best Sex Ever" became the game of the week.
~ Rosamund Stone Zander
The practice of giving the A allows the teacher to line up with her students in their efforts to produce the outcome, rather than lining up with the standards against these students. In the first instance, the instructor and the student, or the manager and the employee, become a team for accomplishing the extraordinary; in the second, the disparity in power between them can become a distraction and an inhibitor, drawing energy away from productivity and development.
~ Rosamund Stone Zander
When you give an A, you find yourself speaking to people not from a place of measuring how they stack up against your standards, but from a place of respect that gives them room to realize themselves.
~ Rosamund Stone Zander
She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
It was good and nothing good is ever lost.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
She may not have believed in God, but I'm pretty certain God believed in her.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
Our baby gives herself to me completely. There is no hesitation, no reservation, no holding back, no coldness, no craft, no tremor or fear in her love. Although our relationship may encompass tears, frustration, even fury, it is an utterly reliable bond. As it grows, her love is literally unadulterated. Her love is wholly of the child, pure in its essence as children are in their direct passions. Children do not love wisely, but perhaps they love the best of all.
~ Louise Erdrich
This was our ritual. Our breaking break, our communion. and it all began with that trusting moment where my father walked up behind my mother and she smiled at his approach without turning. By now they stood staring at each other helplessly over the broken dish.
~ Louise Erdrich
You're not very trusting. Are you sure you haven't been around here before?" "My dad is a drunk." "Oh, I get it," said Jack. "Mine was too.
~ Louise Erdrich
And Patrice thought another thing her mother said was definitely true—you never really knew a man until you told him you didn't love him. That's when his true ugliness, submerged to charm you, might surface. After all, it had happened with Bucky.
~ Louise Erdrich
That old buffalo woman gave Nanapush her views. She told him that he had survived by doing the opposite of all the others. Where they abandoned, he saved. Where they were cruel, he was kind. Where they betrayed, he was faithful. Nanapush then decided that in all things he would be unpredictable. As he had completely lost trust in authority, he decided to stay away from others and to think for himself, even to do the most ridiculous things that occurred to him.
~ Louise Erdrich
I heard your looking for your sis. My cousin lives in the Cities. She saw her and wrote to you—with her L hand because she broke her R finger pointing out my faults. That's Genevieve for you. Watch the mail.
~ Louise Erdrich
And Patrice thought another thing her mother said was definitely true—you never really knew a man until you told him you didn't love him.
~ Louise Erdrich
If I stepped off a cliff in that heart of his, he'd catch me. He'd put me back in the sun.
~ Louise Erdrich
When I creep into our bed, there is the joy and relief of a person entering a secret dimension. Here, I shall be useless. The world can go on without me. Here I shall be held by love. Still, quite often
~ Louise Erdrich
Bernadette thought she could trust young Nector Kashpaw because he'd been exposed to the withering light of the government school.
~ Louise Erdrich
We'll get to the truth quicker if we don't worry about logic.
~ Louise Erdrich
All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe. It will work miracles in your life.
~ Louise Hay
even when every man deserts us, God will be our consolation.
~ Louise M. Gouge