Quotes About Trust

We were each other's armor. And in that moment, we each became the other's lance, sword, and shield.

Hello there. I have been trying to lose my virginity and I picked you to do it with. Wondering what you're doing later on this afternoon?

I don't kick a man when he's down, unless I'm the one who put him down in the first place. I don't put him down unless he deserves it. And I don't break my word if I give it. So I'll give you my word.

Everything I know, I learned from dogs.

as the old proverb said, The falling out of faithful friends is the renewal of love.

What is decisive is that, in his personal goals and wishes, in his sense of what had meaning and what did not, he anticipated the attitudes and feelings of a later type of artist. [...] In other words, Mozart represented the free artists who places his trust largely in individual inspiration.

Rule #1: Use your good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules.

She had believed that she alone could touch his heart, and that likewise his was the only gaze that would ever reach hers. She had left her home in response to his kind words, only to find that this belief had been nothing but the conceit of an ignorant girl.

When I saw her... my heart skipped a beat. Her expression was as open and trusting as that of a young child. Such purity is something never, ever seen at the court. Hieraglion is a mire of intrigue and deceit... yet there she was-- a simple, beautiful wildflower blooming in its midst. I wanted to protect her. Myself. With my own two hands.

Our cattlemen have given us the safest, most abundant, most affordable beef supply in the world and I trust their judgment. And if you look at consumer confidence in this country, so does the American public.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

We realize how dangerous and painful life is if we don't open up. We know we have to do it. And as soon as we start to try, we realize immediately that there is no way that we could ever do this alone, because opening up means opening to what's around us, to others, to the world, and to our radical connectedness.

Why would we have to know everything all the time? Why do we have to be so knowledgeable, so smart, so in control? We don't! There's no need to figure everything out. We can just be alive. We can breathe in and breathe out and let go and just trust our life, trust our body. Our body and our life know what to do. The problem is to let them do it, to relax and let them guide us.

At the bottom of every important conflict is a sense of love having been betrayed

In a Zen retreat we have a format for working with these quicksilver changes: we sit with them, we pay attention to them... Being steady with mindfulness as an anchor for all the changes we go through is the way we practice forbearance. And you can employ this same method anywhere anytime: just pay close attention to the details of what is going on internally and externally. Don't flinch, don't run away. Trust what happens. Take your stand there." (71)

The only difference between meditation and non meditation is that when we meditate we are not grasping anything or trying to do anything: instead we are releasing ourselves to our lives, with trust that our lives are all we need. (78)

If we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain." —C. S. LEWIS