Being able to trust is for sure one of the most challenging things you can do, especially if you’ve been let down over and over again by the world around you. But if you give up on the world won’t the world give up on you as well?

Trusting Again

It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve been hurt, betrayed, and disappointed. All that matters is that you learn to trust again. Because when you trust life, life trusts you.

33 Quotes to Help You Trust Again

“I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”~ Maya Angelou

“He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.”~ Lao Tzu

“The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.”~ Abraham Lincoln

“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

“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”~ Fred Rogers

“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.”~ Booker T. Washington

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”~ Khalil Gibran

“Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.”~ Neil Gaiman

“Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”~ Stephen Covey

“When an individual trusts another sufficiently to expose the true self — the deepest fears, the hidden desires — a powerful intimacy is born.”~ Sarah Pekkanen

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”~ Ernest Hemingwa

“Without self-trust, we can never become wise because we will continue to look outside ourselves for the answer.”~ M. J. Ryan

“To be joyful … try less and trust more.”~ Richard Daly

“We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.”~ Harper Lee

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”~ Buddha

“You have to trust or you’re only living half a life.”~ J.D. Robb

“If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they’re supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.”~Goldie Hawn

“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you’re going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”~ C. JoyBell C.

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”~ Thomas Moore

“Love is supposed to be based on trust, and trust on love, it’s something rare and beautiful when people can confide in each other without fearing what the other person will think.”~ E.A. Bucchianeri

“After all, trust is greater than love, and to truly trust another human being is rare. Love can exist without trust, but trust cannot exist without love.”~ Sammy Sutton

“Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble.”~ Stieg Larsson

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”~ Albert Einstein

“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.”~ Paulo Coelho

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”~ George MacDonald

“The glue that holds all relationships together–including the relationship between the leader and the led–is trust, and trust is based on integrity.”~Brian Tracy

“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.”~ David Levithan

“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

“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”~ Alan Watts

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”~ Khalil Gibran

“If people like you, they will listen to you. but if people trust you, they will do business with you.”~ Zig Ziglar

“When mistrust comes in, loves goes out.”~ Irish proverb

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