Quotes About Trust

I'll take my chances. It has you." And when a great man says something smart like that a smart woman just shuts up.

There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.

I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count

Which is when I understand, in a flash, what I've been doing wrong with her—what I've been doing wrong in how I've been trying to connect with her. I thought if I were nice enough, sweet enough, she'd understand she could count on me. But that's not how you learn you can count on someone. You learn it in the moments when everyone's too tired to be sweet, too tired to try hard. You learn it by what they do for you then.

Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.

Even if things didn't always go the way they should, sometimes they went exactly where they needed to.

The best thing about being a friend, is just being.

It's not helpful for your connection with your husband to discuss with him your hurt or scared feelings about him, but your feelings do deserve airtime. So make sure to honor and express those feelings somewhere else. The more you preserve the intimacy in your marriage by avoiding comments that are disrespectful to or critical of your husband, the less you're going to have those hurtful moments. You'll be too busy laughing together and holding hands.

My husband is smart enough to notice me trying to control him like I'm his boss or his mother—instead of his lover—no matter how clever my wording.

None of us feels good about ourselves when we're nagging, critical, or controlling.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage." —Sir Robert Anderson, Author

These are the four magical questions to help you decide whether you'd rather act on your fear or choose your faith.   1.  What am I afraid of?   2.  Is my fear realistic?   3.  Can I actually control the situation?   4.  Is it worth the intimacy it would cost me to try to control?

Now it's no longer my goal to be independent. What I want is to be interdependent with my husband.

they say to grow up strong, a child only needs one person who thinks the world of them.

Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.

My feelings are my own responsibility. I don't see what trust has to do with it. I can't go around handing them off to other people.

It was hard to trust in happiness, coming from another person, but . . . there was so much of it, around him.

With aggressive come-ons, at least you knew where you stood. Holding hands, you got - hopeful.

for some reason, he didn't want her to look back at him with rejection or reciprocal challenge. He definitely didn't want her to look at him as if she was mentally gauging her ability to kill him to defend herself. He wanted her to look at him like she looked at his chocolate, as if she was absorbing strength and happiness. And was in no hurry to leave it. It turned his heart all funny to think of being

You learned that it was easy frighteningly easy to get lost in someone else's life accommodating him and stop being yourself. You learned to be wary about falling in love. And you learned that someone who loved you could stop loving you for some dark reason and even though that was bruising you were more resilient than you knew. Eventually you would get over it more or less.

Honesty wins the day" is one of my favorite made-up mantras, and I needed it then.

How they treat the process is how you will be treated.

No tenía claro a dónde debía dirigirse, pero confiaba en que, cuando llegara ahí, lo sabría. Porque los árboles estarían cantando.

Moriría por ti; pero no estoy dispuesto a permitir que tu mueras por mi, y menos por Jack. Christian