Fear of being alone is not a good reason to stay. Leaving this man you’ve been with for six years won’t be easy, but you’ll be okay and so will he. The end of your relationship with him will likely also mark the end of an era of your life. In moving into this next era there are going to be things you lose and things you gain. Trust yourself.
—Cheryl Strayed in Tiny Beautiful Things
A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.
—Jerome Blattner
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
—Frank Herbert
When you make a solemn promise to a friend, it ain’t right to go back on it. Never let your friend down, never break a trust, and when you give your word, never go back on it.
—Lauren Myracle in Bliss
Trust me to know my own feelings. Don’t assume you know what’s best for me.
—Jen Frederick in Undeclared
Don’t trust anybody who’d rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.
—Tom Robbins
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
—Henry Stimson
The best proof of love is trust.
—Joyce Brothers
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love—and to put its trust in life.
—Joseph Conrad
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
—P.J. O'Rourke
Patience is a hard discipline. It is not just waiting until something happens over which we have no control: the arrival of the bus, the end of the rain, the return of a friend, the resolution of a conflict. Patience is not waiting passively until someone else does something. Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient, we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
—Henri J. M. Nouwen
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
—George MacDonald
I know I've changed. Nothing gets to me anymore. Well, okay, except for stuff in the past. Back then I was all innocent and trusting and didn't know anything.
—Laura Wiess in Leftovers
Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it's leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn't right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice.
—Jennifer Elisabeth
We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is an idle and superficial learning. We must make them our own. We are just like a man who, needing fire, went to a neighbor's house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sat down to warm himself without remembering to carry any back home. What good does it do us to have our belly full of meat if it is not digested, if it is not transformed into us, if it does not nourish and support us?
—Michel de Montaigne