I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.
Simon Van BooyThe very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing...
Lynne Reid BanksTags: trust conflict desire longing
I know none of this seems very believable. It probably doesn't even make sense. But for once in your life, please, I am asking you to trust me. Trust yourself.
Charles YuTags: trust trust-yourself
All we know is what we're told.
Ashly LorenzanaTags: life truth perception reality knowledge acceptance trust subjectivity
Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.
Maria V. SnyderNowadays… deals are transactional rather than personal. Instead of placing your faith in a person, you get lawyers to write safeguards into the contract. This is an historic shift from a trust economy to a risk economy. But trust is not a dispensable luxury. It is the very basis of our social life. Many scholars believe that capitalism had religious roots because people could trust other people who, feeling that they were answerable to God, could be relied on to be honest in business. A world without trust is a lonely and dangerous place.
Jonathan SacksTags: capitalism economics trust business
It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.
Megan Whalen TurnerTags: trust loyalty eugenides the-king-of-attolia teleus
Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
Joseph J. EllisTags: relationships trust pride vulnerability
Eden will stay with you." I glanced up at the blue-haired woman who watched us. "She promises to take good care of you. Right, Eden?"
Eden nodded, curt and no-nonsense, a soldier to the bones.
I glanced back at Angelina. "You trust her, don't you?"
Angelina didn't turn her wide eyes away from me. I needed Angelina's answer. But then her eyes sparkled, ever so slightly, as she gave me her response, a barely perceptible nod.
No one else could have possibly known how much meaning that single gesture held.
Eden was honorable. Angelina had told me so.
Maxim 30:
A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Tags: caution trust rules-to-live-by subverted-sayings
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