Quotes About Trust

One of my best days was when I ... offered [chimp David Greybeard] fruit on my outstretched hand, and he turned his head away. I put my hand closer - and he took the fruit, dropped it, and gently squeezed my hand, which is a chimp reassurance gesture ... We communicated perfectly in a language that predates words.

Once the intimacy has gone, however well you may get on, however friendly you may become, it is hard to believe it was ever there.

As far as I'm concerned you have to give every relationship your all because if you're going to get hurt, you're going to get hurt, but at least at the end of it you'll know you gave it your best shot.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is to keep secrets. They always come out in the end, and it is the unspoken that causes the most problems.

She had married him because she felt sage, because she'd had enough pain to last her a lifetime, and because although he had many faults, faults she was aware of before she married him, she knew he wouldn't hurt her. She knew because there was no passion, and the only time she had felt passion, it had come with a price.

things have a habit of working out in life the way they are supposed to, if you are able to just relax and trust in the workings of the universe.

I cannot believe that I am actually excited at the sight of him. It has been long since anyone has made me feel THIS...and even though I know I've avoided THIS for fear of getting hurt, there's something about him that makes me want to trust him.

My conscious self would do anything to avoid people with cheating tendencies, but my subconscious keeps trying to recreate home and keeps bringing me back to people who recreate my childhood.

I'm just scared that you've fallen for the way he's treating you rather than for the man himself.

If you want to talk about it with someone, then I`m happy to listen, or try and help, but you should only tell me if you want to.

I sigh and look at her. 'I must have been mad taking you on as a friend'. ' What are you talking about?' she grins. 'You didn't take me on. I chose you'.

trust a man who doesn't like children or animals

That's the problem with lying. You can never remember what you've said.

That's the mark of true friends. That we might not see each other for a year but when we do it's as if we were never apart.

but if I can't tell my best friend, who can I tell??

People show you who they are not by what they say, but by what they do.

Good relationships require kindness, commitment, and appreciation.

Allowing ourselves to show our vulnerability is how we make human connections. If we're not showing other people our true selves, our weaknesses and flaws, how can we ever allow ourselves to be known?

You can't grow as a person," she said sadly, ignoring my joke, "when you close yourself off emotionally. It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?

The only best friends she has ever really had, has ever wanted, could ever truly count on, is Elliott.

Whenever our friends get involved with married men we hear about what they say and it's always the same and we always tell our friends that he's never going to leave her, but the minute it happens to us, the minute we meet a married man and he says he loves his wife but he's not in love with her, we believe him.

Marriage should be about fun. It's about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun.

I think the greatest gifts we can give each other in a relationship are the gifts of kindness and communication.

talking to people. Within a few minutes, she starts to believe that they are in fact friends. She is seduced every time. In fact a few months ago