Quotes About Trust

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.

Henry Miller once wrote: "No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance."3

And when you're strong, you can't convince people of your love for them.

What reveals a genuine love for God is my ability to convince my family and others of my love for them.

I know I'm not perfect, but I didn't think it was fair that they told me one thing and wrote down another.

Well I'm looking at history," she said, pointing at me. "You used to be a friend, but now you stink as a friend! I came here to give you a second chance and you make me smell the crotch of an old book.

She was always more fair to me than I was to her, and somehow this kept me from being totally honest with her.

sea otters hold each other's paws whilst they are asleep so they don't drift apart from each other.

If there's one thing I've learned in my short and unhappy life it's never to expect anything and to be particularly suspicious of that which is apparently served up on a plate.

A world at war is crazy enough for anything to be believable.

wisdom? As the Zen texts explain, "To live in trusting

Being an artist means ripening like a tree which . . . stands confidently in the storm of winter not afraid that summer may not come. It always comes.

Plant your seed of trust. It will grow in its season.

If you hold on to any expectation, you miss the wisdom. It is impermanent. Be the One Who Knows, the witness to it all. This is how trust grows." And it is how love grows as well. Trust and love are the keys.

the best con men were the ones you'd embrace and then buy dinner and toast their good health even when they were stealing you blind.

We must trust everyone and no-one

And you know what the worst thing was? The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.

And now we don't go to priests and doctors and people with letters after their names we come to people who have been there we come to each other and we try and we don't have to die.

I was thinking how much trouble people get into because they can't keep their mouths shut.

Fear the assassin who waits in the lonely passages of the heart. —Teri Kilborn, Broken Fences           She

But the reality is that sometimes a good lie may be what we really need. Provided we can make it sound like truth.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

You want the truth? You can't handle the truth