Quotes About Trust

if we all learn anything from being alive on this planet, it's that people will lie to you, especially about how much or little they care about you. And I would guess there's a lot more similarity in how we suffer than the way we experience joy.

It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side by side with our fear. A test of whether we preferred to be ignorant or unsafe.

We must trust our thoughts while we sleep. We must trust our hunches. We must begin to examine all of those things that we think of as irrational simply because we do not understand them. In other words, we must distrust the rational, the logical, the sane, in an attempt to reach for something higher, for something more worthy.

In unusual situations there can be a comfort in the presence of even someone you think might be your enemy.

Have we been compromised by our own data? The answer is: Of course.

You can't trust how I'll get somewhere, but you have to trust I know where I'm going. I always know where I'm going.

They'd never really been my friends; I didn't cultivate friends, I had just inherited them from my husband.

If I were you, I would never tell ugly stories about ingenious ways of killing people, for you never can tell but that someone at the table may be tired of his or her nearest and dearest.

A sudden flash of his partner Wyte, telling him he was compromised, him replying, "I don't have an opinion on that.

Sometimes you had to keep things from people just so they wouldn't do the first thing that came into their heads.

Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time, as if he didn't trust words anymore. Or had begun to cherish the answers silence gave him.

Then, too, that other effect of the spores, the brightness in my chest, continued to sculpt me as I walked, and by the time I reached the deserted village that told me I was halfway to the lighthouse, I believed I could have run a marathon. I did not trust that feeling. I felt, in so many ways, that I was being lied to.

Above all, don't think, for what you think happens!

Marriage isn't a vow to stop being interested in other people; it's a commitment as to how to handle that interest.

If the peace lily stops flowering, just be patient. It will bloom again.

He was her life support and she didn't want to let go for fear of drowning.

Ya sé que eres traidora y que me tienes buena voluntad. Lo bueno crece junto con lo malo.

Ya sabes que tengo miedo y que por eso traiciono...

It is easy to understand why trust becomes a major issue for adults abused as children when you remember that trust is learned in childhood. As children, we were totally dependent upon our parents. We trusted that they would feed us, change our diapers, keep us safe and warm. When this trust is unknown or broken, it is difficult to restore.

When one cannot trust, a vicious cycle begins. The less you trust, the less likely you are to have friends or intimate relationships. The more isolated you become, the less you can trust others. When others do not seek you out, or you cannot seem to make friends, you may think that there is something wrong with you.

As abused children grow up, they may view themselves as bad, and everybody else as good, or, at least better. On the other hand, some abused children can see themselves as good, and others bad. They can become afraid of others and avoid them for fear of getting hurt. In its extreme form, these people can expect only pain and suffering from others, and see everyone as a potential attacker.

Children who grow up being put down, held back, beaten, taken advantage of, ignored, and misused or maltreated, find it hard to trust, and expect little from others except pain. They protect themselves by staying isolated and may frequently feel that as long as they don't have to relate to anyone else, they will manage. Loneliness may become a way of life for these children. An abused child often plays alone, makes friends only with a pet, or creates a rich fantasy life.

Meekness, then, was not weakness but relying fully on Gods power as Moses had.

Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?