Quotes About Trust

You might reflect on how a physician, in order to help an individual heal themselves, will sometimes cut into the individual's body and perform procedures which in any other context would be considered life-threatening.

Individuals with the Trust Survival Style seek power and control.

At its extreme, the Trust Survival Style develops when a person grows up in an atmosphere of abuse and horror. Children who witness or experience abuse are helpless and powerless. The horror they witness may involve family violence, such as observing father beating up mother, or witnessing violence in the community, as in ghetto situations.

There are two basic strategies that individuals with the Trust Survival Style use in their struggle to exercise their power: they become seductive and manipulative, or they become overpowering.

Adaptive Survival Style Shame-Based Identification Connection Feel shame at existing, feeling, and connecting Attunement Feel shame when experiencing and communicating their needs Trust Feel shame when feeling dependent, vulnerable, or weak Autonomy Feel shame at their impulses toward self-determination, autonomy, and independence Love/Sexuality Feel shame about sharing their heart and relational intimacy

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it.

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

You can always tell a real friend: when you make a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

O]f all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the best—I'm sure it is the most religious—for I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

God leads you to it and takes you through it.

Betrayal and grief have a certain color no matter what the species is.

The idiot will tire soon enough of his playthings and will come home; husbands always do.

You Know You Love Me! XOXO Gossip Girl

I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.

That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.

And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl

Everything would work out and she wouldn't have to tell Dane that the box full of ancient ivory penises was roaming freely about Kirkall Hall.

Opinion is worth nothing. Where is your evidence?" (Atalanta Worthington)