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ContrastsThe windows of my poetry are wide open on the boulevards and in the shop windowsShineThe precious stones of lightListen to the violins of the limousines and the xylophones of the linotypesThe sketcher washes with the hand-towel of the skyAll is color spotsAnd the hats of the women passing by are comets in the conflagration of the eveningUnity There's no more unityAll the clocks now read midnight after being set back ten minutesThere's no more time.There's no more money.In the ChamberThey are spoiling the marvelous elements of raw material("Contrasts")
— Blaise Cendrars, Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques de Blaise Cendrars: Edition critique et commentée
All bodies are radiant but not all radiance is visible: stars radiate visible light
—  planets and donkeys and couches radiate infrared waves. (If your couch is emitting visible light GET UP IMMEDIATELY!)
But you still need the two: the dark and the light. You can't see one without the other.
— Julia Green, Drawing with Light
In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge at last onto a hillside strewn with logogrammatic stones, and scramble away from spruce tops." in the poem "Beyond the Beacon" from Terra Affirmative.
— Jay Woodman, Riding the Escalator and Terra Affirmative
In the end, people will not be judged by the darkness they lived in, but by the light they rejected.
— Anthony Liccione
Have trembled beneath the pressure of a light beam.
— Jay Woodman, COUNT
Allow the light to fall across you. Shadow or sunlight. Allow it to define your shape. In its way. Another day it may be different. It surely will be. Are we ever the same? Is the light? And the way a form presses into the grass?
— Jay Woodman, COUNT
Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom...
— John Milton, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas
. . .after the shadows comes light.
— Tobin Wilson
ZENITHNOON beats outon its solar anvilthe rays of light
— Sonia Delaunay, The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology
You can't imagine what it's like to be torn between darkness and light- to be a traitor no matter what move you make. If my grandmother and Marissa died tonight, it would be because I had stayed in the darkness too long, flirting with the idea of being Cedric's consigliere. If that happened, I could never live with myself- but if Cedric gave me the bite as he planned, I would be forced to live with it forever. That was the worst hell I could imagine.
— Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood
That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes, and which always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history and daylight have arrived.That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. Babylon violated lessens Alexander, Rome enchained lessens Caesar, Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables: Volume Two
Numb the dark and you numb the light.
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.
— Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior
For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
— James     Baldwin
I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light out of my system. I wanted the dark fecundity of nature, the deep well of the womb, silence, or else the lapping of the black waters of death. I wanted to be that night which the remorseless eye illuminated, a night diapered with stars and trailing comets. To be of night so frighteningly silent, so utterly incomprehensible and eloquent at the same time. Never more to speak or to listen or to think.
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
Through adversity, not only are we given an opportunity to discover our inner strength, we are also given the gift of foresight so we can shine a light for others who go through the experience after us.
— Rachael Bermingham
...you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
I can think of nothing but the stars. It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars. They are all that I have ever dreamed of; they are nothing that I ever expected... I will never, never be the same. I have seen stars. Real stars.
— Beth Revis, Across the Universe
Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.
— Jennifer Donnelly, The Wild Rose
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
— Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
...I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color ...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
She smiled and her whole face lit up. Or maybe it was mine. All I know for certain is that smile lit up even my darkest days.
— J. Sterling
Photographs don’t discriminate between the living and the dead. In the fragments of time and shards of light that compose them, everyone is equal. Now you see us; now you don’t. It doesn’t matter whether you look through a camera lens and press the shutter. It doesn’t even matter whether you open your eyes or close them. The pictures are always there. And so are the people in them.
— Robert Goddard
There are no shadows in darkness. Shadows are created by light, and only exist in the presence of light. Refusing to acknowledge our shadow leads us to deny the presence of light in us.
— Franco Santoro
It's during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
— Aristotle Onassis
...I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
The concept of divine revelation was central to Augustine's epistemology, or theory of knowledge. The metaphor of light is instructive. In our present earthly state we are equipped with the faculty of sight. We have eyes, optic nerves, and so forth- all the equipment needed for sight. But a man with the keenest eyesight can see nothing if he is locked in a totally dark room. So just as an external source of light is needed for seeing, so an external revelation from God is needed for knowing. When Augustine speaks of revelation, he is not speaking of Biblical revelation alone. He is also concerned with "general" or "natural" revelation. Not only are the truths in Scripture dependent on God's revelation, but all truth, including scientific truth, is dependent on divine revelation. This is why Augustine encouraged students to learn as much as possible about as many things as possible. For him, all truth is God's truth, and when one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.
— R.C. Sproul, Consequences of Ideas
Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings.
— Belinda Jeffrey, One Long Thread
The color palette is confined to that of a Gustave Dore' engraving, greys and blacks, and subtle shadings of these rendered in harrowing crosshatches and highlighted with sudden glaring areas of nothingness, like splotches of vitiligo sent to haunt the dead with memories of what real light did to the eyes.
— Kevin Hearne, Trapped
Our heart is actually already open, but it is our judgments about others and ourselves that keep it closed. When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open. The way to healing is to learn to love and accept ourselves unconditionally. It means to embrace both our positive and negative sides with love. It means to love everything that we find inside ourselves. Healing happens when we bring everything that we find inside ourselves out into the light.
— Swami Dhyan Giten, The Silent Whisperings of the Heart - An Introduction to Giten's Approach to Life
Being on the side of the Light is much tougher than being on the side of the Dark...
— Sergei Lukyanenko
Turning up our light in the presence of those whose light is dim becomes the difference that makes the difference.
— Eric Allenbaugh
The essence of darkness is the knowledge of what blocks the light.
— Daniel Lee Edstrom
Gray fall light came through the nine square glass panes. On days like this, the strips of white wood that separated the glass seemed brighter to the eye than did the window light.
— Graham Moore, The Sherlockian
THE LIGHT THAT NOW REFLECTS FROM WITHIN YOU RADIATES PURITY AND HOLINESS, WHICH CAUSES US TO BECOME A LIGHT TO THE WORLD.
— Garey Gordon
Darkness has the ability to cover up
—  light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of truth
There's a light somewhere.It may not be much light butit beats the darkness.
— Charles Bukowski
The source of all light is in the eye.
— Alan W. Watts
Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Me? Beautiful? I'm plain as cardboard. That may be how you see yourself, but the rest of the world would be hard to agree. You shine brighter than the Milky Way.Now there are those who might try to take that from you, but you don't have to give it away. Keep on shining Pattyn.And when the right young man comes along, he'll love you all the more for giftin' this sad planet with your light.
— Ellen Hopkins, Burned
He was like a shattered stained-glass window: something beautiful that's broken
—  a million colours fallen on the ground where no light can get through.
How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin stripes. It hangs like a glass cage. It is a hoop to be fractured by a tiny jar. There is a spark there. Next moment a flush of dun. Then a vapour as if earth were breathing in and out, once, twice, for the first time. Then under the dullness someone walks with a green light. Then off twists a white wraith. The woods throb blue and green, and gradually the fields drink in red, gold, brown. Suddenly a river snatches a blue light. The earth absorbs colour like a sponge slowly drinking water. It puts on weight; rounds itself; hangs pendent; settles and swings beneath our feet.
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
The inner light actually comes from the soul; it is already inside us. The moment we can have free access to our soul, we will see that this light is coming to the fore to permeate our whole outer existence.
— Sri Chinmoy, The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace
Who doesn't have a dark place somewhere inside him that comes out sometimes when he's looking in a mirror? Dark and light, we are all made out of shadows like the shapes on a motion-picture screen. A lot of people think that the function of the projector is to throw light on the screen, just as the function of the story-teller is to stop fooling around and simply tell what happened, but the dark places must be there too, because without the dark places there would be no image and the figure on the screen would not exist.
— MacDonald Harris, Mortal Leap
Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.
— Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem
SUN, MOON, AND STARRY SKYEarly summer evenings, when the first stars come out, the warm glow of sunset still stains the rim of the western sky.Sometimes, the moon is also visible, a pale white slice, while the sun tarries.Just think -- all the celestial lights are present at the same time!These are moments of wonder -- see them and remember.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Our route toward spiritual evolution is radiantly clear. We all have our own unique individual journey to walk toward enlightenment. Living on the brink of evolutionary change means that new ground is being broken and new consciousness is being raised. Truth is of the essence – we have no dogma, no set formula, no prescribed rules, no false standards to follow. All we have is the truth within our souls. I believe most of us want to follow the light, the path of healing and not destroying our earth, but we don't have the courage, the lion heart, to follow our individual truth toward enlightenment. Giving in to our fears, we bury our “gold” beneath the false value systems of our societies, and we attempt to comfort ourselves with the notion that we have no power or responsibility for what is happening to our world. The reality is that, potentially, we all have the power of light – the White Lion – within us. The very first step is to overcome our fears. Thereafter, our hearts will lead the way.
— Linda Tucker, Mystery Of The White Lions: Children Of The Sun God
Immortal existence..Sometimes Living is not such an easy task..Being here or there..The spirit is the same.. Only changes the place where shows..Here, the make-up is of meat.. There is infinite LIGHT..In the flesh, or out of it , what does order is what thinks and what creates..Each thought, a vibration..Each action, a reaction..That doesn't change with the death of the body.. Because actually nobody dies..We are immortal divine existences.. Believing or not..So many lives.. So many experiences..So many faces.. So many dreams..To each life new opportunities.. New learnings..The soul Request.. Thirsty to experiment, feels, develop, evolve, grow and so it goes..The spirit Obeys.. Enters and exit the perishable bodies..Gets right and misses.. rehearses, Conquers and proceeds..The spirit is a gift of the architect of the universe for the benefit of all..It's light.. it's love.. it's eternal..In the Astral or in the Earth.. There is to educate the thought and to clean the energies around yourself..Gives some work to do that spiritual maintenance, but it is worthwhile.It is Light that cleans the Light!So never forget you are imperishable consciousness..May a light circle involves and illuminate each soul..Much light and love in each heart that pulses in the heart of the whole..Namaste,Dave
— Dave Zebian
See people in the light of their potentials, not their problems.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
You don't find light by avoiding the darkness.
— S. Kelley Harrell
Do not hide your light for fear of what others may think of you. Let it shine and be a reflection of what is possible.
— Kristi Bowman
As a child, I was afraid of the dark and the monsters on the outside.As a man, I run away from the light, afraid to show the monsters within.
— Anthony Liccione
But you can't stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.
— Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
I shall now call myself;I shall now call.In the forest of my heart, seeing myself,I shall love myself and love myself.I shall be my own quest,My absolute wealth.The journey of light supreme will commenceIn the heart of freedom.
— Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
Find the light. Reach for it. Live for it. Pull yourself up by it. Gratitude always makes for straighter, taller trees.
— Al R. Young
The light of God is in you. Let your light shine!
— Eleazar
Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.
— Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark
Walk in the light so you can see where you're going
— Eleazar
He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville /could/ do without him. There was somewhere else he had to go now, somewhere else he had to be.
— S.E. Hinton, Hawkes Harbor
... we sat back and let the moon shine itself all over her, and we saw that Tia was full of light. Billy said that when we die the darkness leaves us.'We're pure and perfect then,' he said, 'the way we are when we're born.
— Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark
You can walk in the Light or you can grope around in the dark because there is no walking with Jesus by candle light".~ R. Alan Woods [2012]
— R. Alan Woods
The door of true knowledge will opento the light
— Eleazar
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.
— Lady Gaga
It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
— George MacDonald
We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.
— Alison Croggon
The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible
Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
— Abraham Lincoln
Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words “I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don’t kid yourself that they are.
— Susan Forward, When Your Lover Is a Liar: Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal
I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
— Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
— Stanley Baldwin
You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.
— Maria V. Snyder, Poison Study
We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.
— Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
— Confucius
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!
— Susan Forward, When Your Lover Is a Liar: Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal
Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.
— David Gemmell, Fall of Kings
The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones.
— Cheryl Hughes
Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds
— Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
Only those you trust can betray you.
— Terry Goodkind
When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.
— Frank Crane
Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.
— George MacDonald
...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.
— Albert Camus
I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.
— Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
They may fight with us, but they don't fight for us.
— Christopher Paolini, Eldest
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 Turner, The King of Attolia
I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.
— Dean Koontz, Relentless
Either we're a team or we aren't. Either you trust me or you don't.
— Ally Carter, Heist Society
Do you trust me Ana?"Ana! "Yes,I do."I respond spontaneously, not thinking...because it's true-I do trust him."Well,then"he looks relieved. "The rest of this stuff is just details""important details
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
MAKING THE LIE MAKE SENSE:When denial (his or ours) can no longer hold and we finally have to admit to ourselves that we’ve been lied to, we search frantically for ways to keep it from disrupting our lives. So we rationalize. We find “good reasons” to justify his lying, just as he almost always accompanies his confessions with “good reasons” for his lies. He tells us he only lied because…. We tell ourselves he only lied because…. We make excuses for him: The lying wasn’t significant/Everybody lies/He’s only human/I have no right to judge him.Allowing the lies to register in our consciousness means having to make room for any number of frightening possibilities:•	He’s not the man I thought he was.•	The relationship has spun out of control and I don’t know  what to do•	The relationship may be over. Most women will do almost anything to avoid having to face these truths. Even if we yell and scream at him when we discover that he’s lied to us, once the dust settles, most of us will opt for the comforting territory of rationalization. In fact, many of us are willing to rewire our senses, short-circuit our instincts and intelligence, and accept the seductive comfort of self-delusion.
— Susan Forward, When Your Lover Is a Liar: Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal
You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons
— Adrienne Rich
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
— Aesop
Just so you know, I’ve trusted you since camp.
— Kim Harrison, Pale Demon
Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime.
— J.E.B. Spredemann, An Unforgivable Secret
That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire
I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them.
— Troy Kennedy Martin
There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.
— Daniel Abraham, The Dragon's Path
Give me your trust, said the Aes Sedai.On my shoulders I support the sky.Trust me to know and to do what is best,And I will take care of the rest.But trust is the color of a dark seed growing.Trust is the color of a heart's blood flowing.Trust is the color of a soul's last breath.Trust is the color of death.Give me your trust said the queen on her throne,for I must bear the burden alone.Trust me to lead and to judge and to rule, and no man will think you a fool.But trust is the sound of the grave-dog's bark.Trust is the sound of betrayal in the dark.Trust is the sound of a soul's last breath.Trust is the sound of death.
— Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos
Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone's hand and setting the very point to your heart.
— Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles
Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.
— Shannon L. Alder
In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.
— Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle
Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
If a man has to ask for your trust, it's a sure sign that you should not give it. Trust should be earned inherently, without any verbal demands. Trust is knowing a man's character, knowing truth, and relying on that character and truth even when the odds seem against you.
— Anne Elisabeth Stengl, Heartless
That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.
— Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl
Trust is not an obsession, it's an extension of love. When we truly love someone, we give them our heart to hold in their hands. And when that love is returned, that very trust is balm to our souls.
— Julie Lessman
Trust yourself, you will start to trust others.
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
I ask for trust. It is a lot, I know; it isn't easy to give. But it is all I ask.
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Hawksong
You know, sometimes you've got to trust the people you love. You've got to trust that if they're good people, they'll make good decisions.
— Janette Rallison, How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend
I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.
— Adrienne Rich, Diving Into the Wreck
I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.'What's that?'I...trust you.'Why?'You'll never hurt me.'Thank you.'But...'But, what?'I said, 'That means I'll hurt you.'Why?' 'Cause, like I said, you'll never hurt me back.
— Avi, What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything?
For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
— Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
— Alan W. Watts
Our love has been the thread through thelabyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust.
— Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the way.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
You lie once.. you lie for the rest of your life... and in quest of proving your innocence.. you pledge your honesty with utter lies.... !!!
— Abhijeet Sawant, Aapka Abhijeet
Never trust he who trusts everyone.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.
— Timothy Zahn, Vision of the Future
You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.
— William Paul Young, The Shack
He couldn’t say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he’d learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she’d knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. “It’s fixed. As long as you don’t mind more than a few scars.
— Nalini Singh, Kiss of Snow
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn to trust those around you. So I do. One more time.
— Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.
— Lao Tzu
I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much.But people want to label everything...so I guess I seem indifferent in that way.---Yasu
— Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 17
Open up and wake up with blazing beauty just remember no one is perfect and you are the most beautiful creature on this planet.
— Santosh Kalwar
I have something for you.”“Yeah? What? Is it shiny?”They both waited until Indigo had jogged away before resuming their conversation. “So,” Riley asked, “what have you got for me?” Taking his hand, she placed it palm-down over her heart. It would hurt like a bitch, she thought, but he was hers to protect as much as she was his. “Me.” And she opened up her soul, laid herself bare.
— Nalini Singh, Branded by Fire
The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church.
— Ferdinand Magellan
The best way to guard your heart was to trust a good man to take care of it for you.
— Kristen Ashley, Rock Chick Revenge
Responsibility and Trust -- these two are like Yin and Yang, together perfectly complete, and each one requiring the presence of the other.The next time you mistrust someone, consider this -- does that person feel responsible for you in any way? If the answer is yes, then go ahead and trust them. Very likely, they are looking out for your best interest.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
A king who trusts no man is weak.
— Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
— Frank Crane
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
— Thomas Paine
And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means you were right to be afraid all the time and never feel secure or trust me. I knew it'd be 'See, you're leaving after all when you promised you wouldn't.' I knew it but I'm trying to explain anyway, okay? And I know you probably won't understand this either, but --wait-- just try to listen and maybe absorb this, okay? Ready? Me leaving is not the confirmation of all your fears about me. It is not. It's because of them. Okay? Can you see that? It's your fear I can't take. It's your distrust and fear I've been trying to fight. And I can't anymore. I'm out of gas on it. If I loved you even a little less maybe I could take it. But this is killing me, this constant feeling that I am always scaring you and never making you feel secure. Can you see that?
— David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Reality CheckHis lying is not contigent on who you are or what you do. His lying is not your fault. Lying is his choice and his problem, and if he makes that choice with you, he will make it with any other woman he’s with. That doesn’t mean you’re an angel and he’s the devil. It does mean that if he doesn’t like certain things about you, he has many ways to address them besides lying. If there are sexual problems between you, there are many resources available to help you. Nothing can change until you hold him responsible and accountable for lying and stop blaming yourself. The lies we tell ourselves to keep from seeing the truth about our lovers don’t feel like lies. They feel comfortable, familiar, and true. We repeat them like a mantra and cling to them like security blankets, hoping to calm ourselves and regain our sense that the world works the way we believe it ought to.	Self-lies are false friends we look to for comfort and protection—and for a short time they may make us feel better. But we can only keep the truth at bay for so long. Our self-lies can’t erase his lies, and as we’ll see, the longer we try to pretend they can, the more we deepen the hurt.
— Susan Forward
His mom always said that trust was something you earned. And it wasn't something you gave easy. Too often, it was a tool your enemies used to hurt you with. 'Give them nothing, baby. Not until you have no choice. The world is harsh and it is cold. People can be good and decent, but most of them are only out for themselves and they'll hurt anyone they can'.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infinity
To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)
— Jonathan Kellerman, Blood Test
Trust = telling someone about the things that make you sleepless.
— Hillary Frank, I Can't Tell You
DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck)
— Frank Chase Jr.
She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall.
— John Green, Paper Towns
I trusted her about as far as I could throw her. I was strong and she was small, but it still wasn't very far.
— Ilona Andrews, Magic Slays
Maggie squeezes my hand. It’s a silent message that everything will be okay. Somehow I believe her. In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.
— Simone Elkeles, Return to Paradise
A learned man came to me once.He said, "I know the way, -- come."And I was overjoyed at this.Together we hastened.Soon, too soon, were weWhere my eyes were useless,And I knew not the ways of my feet.I clung to the hand of my friend;But at last he cried, "I am lost.
— Stephen Crane, The Black Riders and Other Lines
Jordan leaned on the counter. He felt a little like a bartender in a TV show, dispensing sage advice. "What do you owe her?""Life," Isabelle said.Jordan blinked. This was a little beyond his bartending and advice-offering skills. "She saved your life?""She saved Jace's life. She could have had anything from the Angel Raziel, and she saved my brother. I've only ever trusted a few people in my life. Really trusted. My mother, Alec, Jace, and Max. I lost one of them already. Clary's the only reason I didn't lose another.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
I don't trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don't make me regret it.
— L.J. Smith
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
— Isaac Watts
Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.
— Isobelle Carmody, Greylands
.. questions that had begun to creep into her thoughts whenever they we're together. When would he be ready? Would he ever be ready? And of course, why he wasn't ready?..
— Nicholas. Sparks, The Choice
Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.
— Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.
— Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia
Hard to trust honesty of inconsistent person.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Are we not perhaps all afraid in some way? If we let Christ enter fully into our lives, if we open ourselves totally to him, are we not afraid that He might take something away from us? Are we not perhaps afraid to give up something significant, something unique, something that makes life so beautiful? Do we not then risk ending up diminished and deprived of our freedom? . . . No! If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful and great. No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed. Only in this friendship do we experience beauty and liberation. And so, today, with great strength and great conviction, on the basis of long personal experience of life, I say to you, dear young people: Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and he gives you everything. When we give ourselves to him, we receive a hundredfold in return. Yes, open, open wide the doors to Christ – and you will find true life. Amen.
— Pope Benedict XVI
What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been Vin, she would have stabbed him in the back at the first opportunity, and that would have probably been the right thing to do. Yet, this girl just continued to trust. It was like finding a beautiful plant growing alone in a field of burnt ash.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages
You have to trust or you're only living half a life.
— J.D. Robb, New York to Dallas
For trust not him that hath once broken faith
— William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 3
Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that I am, all that I possess, including this gem-stone, is yours. I need you. I can't do this alone. Forget your memories. Look into your heart. And if you can find somewhere there, some lingering spark of trust that owes naught to reason, I beg you to speak the word written here.
— Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Mercy
It isn't fair how I doubt him, and I wonder if he'll ever gather that my loss of faith extends further than I'd ever known it would, severing lines of trust and leveling my confidence like a city-flattening tornado.
— Tammara Webber, Good For You
Trust, you give it and you take it away. You believe it with everything you have in you, you allow your heart to trust somebody else. I trusted very few in life, but sometimes you just needed to give in and fight the urge to flee.
— Holly Hood
Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.
— Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.
— Ally Condie, Matched
We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves
— Dean Cavanagh
It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
— Laurence Sterne
Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go for the long haul. Curiosity's like a fun friend you can't really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own - with whatever guts you can muster
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a child from his home. He'd never been able to trust. He could never give that last small piece - all that was left of his humanity - into someone else's keeping. And now there was Rikki. She let him be whatever he had to be to survive. She didn't ask anything of him. There was no hidden motive. No agenda. Just acceptance. She was different - imperfect, or so she thought - and she knew what it was like to fight to carve out a space for herself. She was willing for him to do thar.
— Christine Feehan, Water Bound
In what life can I trust anything out of your mouth ever again?
— Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage
I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and telling the world to go fuck itself, and those were opposite sides of the same coin.
— Betsy Lerner, Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories
Walk straight aheadListen to no oneTrust not in the walls or doorwaysFor they will misleadAnd close behind youAs you walk through The forest, not knowingWhere you’ve come fromOr where you’re going …If anywhere at all.
— Renée Paule, Just Around The Bend: Más o Menos
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
— Henry L. Stimson
Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you.Can I trust him?What do I have to lose?
— Robin McKinley, Sunshine
There is a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.' - Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000
— George W. Bush
Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.
— Robert K. Greenleaf, Servant As Leader
Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.
— Alison Croggon, The Singing
My paranoia wasn't always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in the room.
— Mark Henwick, Hidden Trump
It is good to put your life in other people's hands.
— T.H. White, The Once and Future King
One must gauge one's trust carefully.
— Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen
A kid of your age—any kid—could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?
— Stephen King, Firestarter
A man becomes trustworthy when you trust him.
— Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Of course you don’t trust Braith. You don’t trust anybody,” Ghleanna reminded their brother. “You don’t trust the air.”“Because it tends to become unseasonably chilly when I’d prefer it to be warm. It’s as if it does it on purpose.
— G.A. Aiken, A Tale of Two Dragons
Humbly let go. Let go of trying to do, let go of trying to control, let go of my own way, let go of my own fears. Let God blow His wind, His trials, oxygen for joy's fire. Leave the hand open and be. Be at peace. Bend the knee and be small and let God give what God chooses to give because He only gives love and whisper a surprised thanks. This is the fuel for joy's flame. Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will. And I can empty. I can empty because counting His graces has awakened me to how He cherishes me, holds me, passionately values me. I can empty because I am full of His love. I can trust.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Course Dumbledore trusts you,” growled Moody. “He’s a trusting man, isn’t he? Believes in second chances. But me — I say there are spots that don’t come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, d’you know what I mean?
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing...
— Lynne Reid Banks, The Secret of the Indian
Being trustworthy requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right.
— Don Peppers
Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and control.
— Michelle Huneven, Blame
Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.
— Jane Austen, Emma
The wild things of this earth are not ours to do with as we please. They have been given to us in trust, and we must account for them to the generation which will come after us and audit our accounts.
— William T. Hornaday
Can’t trust no one else to do what you won’t do for yourself.
— Peter V. Brett, The Desert Spear
It’s crucial to practice self-empathy, for trust can’t be willed into existence. That didn’t work when our caregivers tried to impose their will on us, and it won’t work internally, either. Only when we can tap into a place of self-trust, with a reliable process of reparation for inevitable mistakes, can we build trust with another person.
— Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
Someday when we're older, we'll learn who to trust. But heroes and saviors, can't save folks like us.
— Kevin Dalton
For God's sake, if I learned anything during this damn trial it's that the only way someone can leave you is if you let them. And I'm not doing that, Dee. It may look like that today, or tomorrow, or even a month from now, but one day you're going to wake up and see that this whole time you've been gone, you've only been headed back to where you started. And I'll be there, waiting." He leans forward and kisses me once, feather-light, on the lips. "It's not like I'm not letting you go," he murmurs. "I'm just trusting you enough to come back.
— Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
Have you really not noticed, then, that here of all places, in this private, personal solitude that surrounds me, I have turned to you? All the memories of my youth speak to me as I walk, just as the sea shells crunch under my feet on the beach. The crash of every wave awakens far-distant reverberations within me... I hear the rumble of bygone days, and in my mind the whole endless series of old passions surges forward like the billows. I remember my spasms, my sorrows, gusts of desire that whistled like wind in the rigging, and vast vague longings that swirled in the dark like a flock of wild gulls in a stormcloud... On whom should I lean, if not on you? My weary mind turns for refreshment to the thought of you as a dusty traveler might sink onto a soft and grassy bank...
— Gustave Flaubert
Trust the Simi. She ain't never wrong.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infamous
Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew you became extremely careful about how they related or spoke to you.
— Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Afterall, trust is greater than love, and to truly trust another humanbeing is rare. Love can exist without trust, but trust cannot exist without love. Antonio; Hidden Mountain
— Sammy Sutton, King Solomon's Journey