Quotes About Trust

Paul Sills said "Reach into the dark and get the answer." That stuck with me. If you had the courage not to know the answer beforehand, it would come to you. If you could trust yourself *not knowing* was an exciting place to be.

Sometimes, being willing to see the other person means you have to be willing to let them see you.

When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.

It is a startling thing, the need to feel utterly believed.

Go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly, you will be okay.

I have set out to tell you the things you don't know about me, in the hope that, one day perhaps, you will feel able to tell someone what they don't know about you.

Crendendo Vides: By Believing, One Sees

I'm not afraid of the dark I know. It's the dark I don't that terrifies me.

When people don't have access to facts, they invent what they'd like to believe, or what they think others would like to hear.

Never underestimate a droid

Being clear and straightforward about who we are, what we want from others, and our intentions is the cornerstone of integrity.

We all hope for love, enjoy it and desire it, but expecting and demanding it of others fouls up a good relationship.

Who wants a friend who talks about you behind your back? How do I know I can trust you to say good things in my absence when I've seen you cut up a "friend" behind his or her back, only to smile and act endearing when the person unexpectedly appears?

This work is, as I said, improvisation, so we use whoever's around, if we can trust them.

Whether they loved each other or not, they were lovers. And he was damned if he'd see her sucked into this brutal business.

Treacle Walker? Me know that pickthank psychopomp? I know him, so I do. I know him. Him with his pots for rags and his bag and his bone and his doddering nag and nookshotten cart and catchpenny oddments. Treacle Walker? I'd not trust that one's arse with a fart.

We're a team," his dad repeated. "That's what we've always said. This is how we survive, right? Together. It's you and me against the world. But you shut me out on this one. And you let down the team.

Fergus's eyes went wide. "I don't believe it." "I know," Archie said. "This is huge!" "No," Fergus said. "I mean, I don't believe you hired the blinking Pinkertons!

But what if Darius really was messing with us? What if the clues he was feeding us were deliberate fakes? What if he knew he was in Arizona all along, and was dropping these clues to throw me off the scent, knowing I would be the one person in the world who would do anything I could to find him?

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

government regulation cannot substitute for individual integrity.

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief. T. S. Eliot