Great Throughts Treasury

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Islamic Proverbs

First tie your camel’s knee, then trust to Allah.

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Frank K. Sonnenberg

Trust is the fabric that binds us together, creating an orderly civilized society from chaos and anarchy… Trust must be carefully constructed, vigorously nurtured, and constantly reinforced.

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Anarchy | Society | Trust | Society |

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Richard “Rick” Stone

Don’t judge. Just hear what the person has to say. Thoughtfully consider its meaning for him. When you attend to another’s speech in this way, you may come to recognize the miracle of words. This is sacred listening. To such an ear, story, in all of its forms, is transformed into a melodious language. When the listener is this receptive, both he and the teller are elevated to a new realm of communication. This is the foundation of building trust and safety in any relationship.

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Language | Listening | Meaning | Relationship | Sacred | Speech | Story | Trust | Words |

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Donald Woods Winnicott

Creativity is the retention throughout life of something that belongs properly to infant experience: the ability to create the world. . . . By creative living I mean not getting killed or annihilated all the time by compliance or by reacting to the world that impinges; I mean seeing everything afresh all the time… When we are surprised at ourselves we are being creative, and we find we can trust our own unexpected originality.

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Ability | Compliance | Creativity | Experience | Life | Life | Originality | Time | Trust | World |

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Bernard Edmonds

To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.

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Beauty | Courage | Mind | Strength | Trust | Will | Beauty |

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Irving Oyle

Whatever you put your trust in can be the precipitating agent for your cure.

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Aesop NULL

Do not trust flatterers.

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Aesop NULL

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

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Advice | Man | Trust |

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Alexander Hamilton

Patience does not mean indifference. We may work and trust and wait, but we ought not to be idle or careless while waiting.

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Indifference | Patience | Trust | Waiting | Work |

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Alfred Adler

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

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Events | Life | Life | Trust | Words |

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh, born Anne Spencer Morrow

Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child.

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Life | Life | Trust |

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Aristotle NULL

Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a person's own breast. Trust thyself.

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Intuition | People | Right | Sense | Trust | Wisdom | Wise |

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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

I repeat … that all power is a trust - that we are accountable for its exercise - that, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist.

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People | Power | Trust |

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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

All power is a trust - that we re accountable for its exercise.

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