Quotes About Trust

I want to be inside your darkest everything

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.

Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.

Go up close to your friend but do not go over to him! We should respect the enemy that is in our friend

inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

Never trust a thought that occurs to you indoors.

For man to be redeemed from revenge, that is for me the bridge to the highest hope, and a rainbow after long storms. Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

What has shaken me is not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

Whoever does not believe himself always lies.

If spouses did not live together, good marriages would be more frequent.

It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves.

In many people, incidentally, the gift of having good friends is much greater than the gift of being a good friend.

let man fear woman when she loves. then she bears every sacrifice and every other thing she accounts valueless.