Quotes About Trust

If we learned to drive as badly as we learn to make love, the roads would be nothing but wrecks. The erotic can be a window into the deepest core of feeling, but more and more doesn't get you there.

I knew we must stay in absolute sync, for the enemy had grown so subtle, its camouflage so chameleon, we had to be on constant watch.

Good days are such a mysterious gift that you dare not question them much, and the only problem is they give you a false sense of security.

It was nice of her to want to believe the best about me. People tend to do that with the strangers they're fucking. If she wanted to think that apathy and independence were the same thing, good for her. Maybe she was right.

Romance isn't dead, it's just under constant surveillance.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

On considering adultery - Why go out for hamburger when I can have steak at home?

We trust in God's will knowing that, in general, we are far more efficient and effective when we respond calmly and in an unhurried manner than when we explode in unthinking anger.

Instead, we accept our powerlessness over the fact of the situation and then calmly do what we can to improve the situation. We trust in God's will knowing that, in general, we are far more efficient and effective when we respond calmly and in an unhurried manner than when we explode in unthinking anger.

people conducting themselves as the person God wants them to be in spite of the people, situations and circumstances that surround them.

Lacking sufficient courage ourselves, we borrow courage from courageous people and from our Higher Power, and it works.

people who know about such things insist there are only two basic emotions: Love and Fear. All other emotions, they say, are variations on either of these two themes. At every moment of every day we choose either love or fear.

I'm sorry, but for my own serenity, I can't afford to hear the details. I love you. I respect you, and I know you'll make the right decision.

Pray and get ready for it. When you are ready, get by yourself, pray for guidance, and finally give the entire matter and everything connected to it to God. Tell God you are giving this person and the entire business to Him, complete in every detail.

I also choose to believe that if I do a thing for the right motive and leave the results up to God, everything will turn out the way it is supposed to. Not necessarily the way I would have chosen, but definitely the way it is supposed to be.

Intimacy in a relationship develops as a result of working through problems. Handled in this manner, a problem truly becomes a win/win situation. Everybody wins.

The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don't think the author should be.

The way of the heart is much less environmentally deterministic than the brain and is based on a view of the universe as essentially a friendly place. The heart speaks in the language summarized by author Elizabeth Rivers: "When something doesn't go my way, I let go of my idea of how it should be, trusting that my mind [brain] doesn't know the larger picture.

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

Motto: true to myself, false to others (excepting one person).

Believing a patient's lies is not a professional failure. Psychiatrists are trained to detect, understand, and treat psychopathology, not to function as lie detectors. While a certain level of suspicion is essential in the practice of psychiatry, clinicians, determined never to be taken in by deceitful patients, will approach them with such exaggerated suspicion that therapeutic work will be impossible.

That's what sex is: inserting your heart into someone else's heart.

Good mentalizing refers to mental and relational strengths as curiosity, perspective taking, forgiveness, reflective contemplation, a trusting attitude, humility, playfulness , willingness to assume responsibility and accept accountability and being aware of one's impact on others (Bateman and Fonagy 2016