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Trust is confidence in ourselves, others, and our sense of the Divine. Trust takes a risk; in the absence of certainty, is assumes that goodness, truth, honor, fairness, or ability will prevail. For another person to place trust in us is a wonderful and delicate gift.


Sometimes people trust us to be or do more than we can. Children often trust their parents in this way. An expectation of perfection can make trust fragile and brittle so that it is crushed by disappointment. But if we honor trust as a gift and if we honor the vulnerability of the giver, trust can grow through and beyond disappointments.


Trust becomes resilient when it is grounded in reality – when it recognizes the imperfections and yet sees the through-line of goodness that lies beneath and beyond them.

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Insight - Trust - Openness
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

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Trust - Unity - Creating Beauty - Tolerance - Optimism - Universal Ethics
The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.

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Boldness - Courage - Growth - Trust - Truth-seeking - Openness
‎"The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being." -Rumi

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Contribution #4254


Faith - Trust - Forgiveness
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequitly explained by stupidity

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Decisiveness - Trust - Common Sense - Openness
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

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Contentment - Trust
Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, thirst that is unquenchable?

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Growth - Insight - Integrity - Trust - Honesty
It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.

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Boldness - Joyfulness - Trust
Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises.

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Starbucks - The Way I See It #31
http://www.starbucks.com/retail/thewayiseeit_featuredauthor_RGelman.asp
Contribution #2608


Faith - Trust
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

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Anna Frank
http://www.betterworld.net/quotes/diversity-quotes-2.htm
Viewed on April 24, 2008
Contribution #1105


Trust - Trustworthiness
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

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Henry Lewis Stimson
Viewed on April 7, 2008
Contribution #179


Trust
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

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E.M. Forster
Viewed on April 7, 2008
Contribution #178