Quotes About Trust

We are not here to exist; we are here to live, to face death and stare it down. We are here to trust in God and to embrace this world in all its quiet and violent beauty, to break down the walls of our own prejudices and believe in something greater than ourselves. We are here to paddle into our worst fears and come out the other side to discover glaciers, to meet them face-to-face, and to celebrate a sense of wonder and God's plan that we find only in Nature.

Uncle Austin used to say that when men set out to destroy each other, the first victim was always the same: truth.

Soldier gave her a week or two to get over the golden haired Prince with the character of a horned toad and the soul of a slug

People didn't understand that true intimacy did not consist of sexual intercourse, which could be done with strangers and in a state of total alienation; intimacy consisted of talking for hours about what was most important in one's life.

Relationships were for that reason utterly mysterious, they took place between two subconscious minds, and whatever the surface trickle thought was going on could not be trusted to be right.

Volatile people, you can't trust them, that's the thing; and they know it. So that even if they feel remorse, it does no good, and they know that too. So they get lonely. And they feel the remorse less and less, maybe. They give up.

Of course I will like forever any woman who has gone to bed with me, as long as we don't become a couple and hate each other forever.

When you have a country formed out of a lot of groups that don't trust each other, with one a clear majority, then you get what they call 'census voting,' where politicians represent their groups, and get their votes, and election results are always just a reflection of population numbers. In that situation the same thing happens every time, so the majority group has a monopoly on power, and the minorities feel hopeless, and eventually rebel.

They tell each other what they are thinking. But there is no reason to believe anything they say.

You hope, the stayers replied. You will have to trust in the kindness of strangers. They did not recognize this as a quotation. In general they were not aware that much of what they said had been said before, and was even in the public record as such. It was as if there were only so many things humans could say, and over the course of history, people had therefore said them already, and would say them again, but not often remember this fact.

I must trust my spacesuit not to fail. And i must remember, if i can, that really we are always in a spacesuit of one sort or another. We just don't usually see it so clearly.

We should do this more often," Charlotte lied. "For sure," Larry lied back.

Many years before, he had learned you could not trust anything you thought between two and five a.m.; in those dark hours the brain was deprived of certain fuels or functions necessary for right mentation. One's thoughts and moods darkened to a sometimes fugilin black. Better to sleep or, failing that, to discount in advance any thought or mood from those hours and see what a new day brought in the way of a fresh perspective.

You always know economists are in deep shit when they start talking about trust and value. Usually when you say fundamentals to them they're like interest rates and price of gold.

Believe in God, believe in yourself, believe in whatever it is you are trying to accomplish…believe in that order.

When you have sex with someone, you willingly give them a part of your soul that you can never get back. So why not wait for the one

When you have sex with someone, you willingly give them a part of your soul that you can never get back.

was because she still hadn't found her soul mate—if there was such a thing—and the fact that she had just learned three days ago that her so-called significant other, Tim, was sleeping with another woman.

It was because she still hadn't found her soul mate—if there was such a thing—and the fact that she had just learned three days ago that her so-called significant other, Tim, was sleeping with another woman.

get in touch with him at all. But then, like clockwork, he would finally call her back the next morning, waking her up and apologizing for dropping off to sleep a lot earlier than usual or for not seeing that she had called him until that very moment.

but this time around, she had tried to be more trusting. She'd told herself that being paranoid, skeptical, and insecure wasn't good, and that maybe Tim really did love her as much as he said he did. She had also decided that he didn't seem like the kind of man who would be unfaithful, not with his regularly talking

So why not wait for the one man who genuinely loves you and who wants to spend the rest of his life with you?

her own heating issues, she'd known her former classmate wasn't the owner of it.

Although, she couldn't deny that whenever one of her three best friends, Michelle, Kenya, or Lynette, brought up the subject of marriage, she pretended that marriage couldn't have been further from her mind.