#trust

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#based #brutality #change #citizen #destructive

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#become #by the time #capital #capital punishment #civilised

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#luck #man #no reason #reason #trust

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#desires #destroy #destruction #ends #entrusts

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#evil #mistrust #more #rejoice #than

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#bombed #britain #continental #derived #distrust

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration. ↗

— Josefa Iloilo

#differences #distrust #diversity #division #happy

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove. ↗

— Dean Inge

#cannot #challenge #faith #god #mountain

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#love #trust #courage

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them ↗

— Thomas Merton

#love #self-discovery #trust #truth #friendship