CURATED COLLECTION

Trusting Other People

Trust is a calculated risk — and refusing to take it is its own kind of loss.

50 quotes found

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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

—Ernest HemingwayNovelist & Journalist

Early Modern ERA • North America

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I write because I have no other way to tell what is happening to my people.

—Claribel AlegríaPoet & Novelist

Late Modern ERA • Central America

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Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.

—Brené BrownAuthor

Contemporary ERA • North America

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Sometimes all we need is someone to tell us that we are okay.

—Nikita GillPoet & Author

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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We all want to belong. It’s a fundamental human need.

—Ayad AkhtarPlaywright & Novelist

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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Listening is a form of translation. You have to translate emotions.

—Valeria LuiselliAuthor & Essayist

Digital Age ERA • Latin America

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It's often the most lonely people who are the most kind. They know what it feels like.

—Marilyn MonroeActress

Post-War ERA • North America

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The world is full of people who are loved, but feel lonely.

—Alain de BottonAuthor & Philosopher

Contemporary ERA • Western Europe

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The wound of my people is my wound.

—Mahmoud DarwishPoet

Late Modern ERA • MENA

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Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.

—Octavio PazPoet, Diplomat & Essayist

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate important things.

—Carl JungPsychiatrist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do.

—Isabel AllendeNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

—George EliotScholar & Thinker

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Love is a kind of madness, and the sanest lovers are those who know it.

—Layla al-AkhyaliyyaPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.

—C.S. LewisWriter & Theologian

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

—Anne FrankScholar & Thinker

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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To live means to be constantly separated from those we love.

—Han KangNovelist

Contemporary ERA • East Asia

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Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

—Charles DickensNovelist & Critic

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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What is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives.

—Rupi KaurPoet

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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My eye weeps, and will weep forever; good reason has it to weep.

—Al-KhansaPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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