This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion too!" - Mikhail Bakunin, fully Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
"Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too-even when you are in the dark. Even when you're falling. " - Morrie Schwartz, fully Morris "Morrie" S. Schwartz
"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family." - Mother Teresa, born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu NULL
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." - Mother Teresa, born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu NULL
"Hope and fear bring trust and mistrust by turns." - Ovid, formally Publius Ovidius Naso NULL
"Do not trust a malicious man because you have long been intimate with him. A serpent will still bite, though it may have been kept and tended a long time." - Panchatantra or The Panchatantra NULL
"Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love." - Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
"The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need at all of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him." - Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
"Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by humans; for, in ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death... And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air... Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm." - Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
"The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms but in mutual trust alone." - Pope John XXIII, born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli NULL
"Self-trust is the first secret of success." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much trust the power by which it lives?" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust thyself. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end. though you can render no reason." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The glory of Friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to ne when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The glory of Friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship. My friends have come unsought. The great God gave them to me." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Self-trust is the essence of heroism." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work." - Rita Mae Brown
"Sexual boredom, that predator of marriages, is generally ascribed to overfamiliarity; but I think it mighty more aptly be blamed on the lack or failure of true intimacy... Sex thrives on the dynamics between novelty and intimacy... What is inalienably shared... for brief encounters, in which little is genuinely discovered or given, tend to emphasize people’s sameness rather than their individuality, and hence to obliterate the novelty that is sought. Intimacy, which demands time and trust, is available almost exclusively through marriage and long friendship." - Robert Grudin
"Perhaps more than any other single factor, the intimate alchemy between the healer and the patient helps mobilize the body's natural resources. The mere presence of a healer often evokes hope in the patient and an expectation of recovery. When the two people create a partnership based on compassion, trust, and shared decision-making, and when the relationship nurtures the patient's hope for a positive outcome, even seemingly incurable diseases sometimes go into remission.... insistently restoring the human heart to the practice of medicine. Rather than treating patients as disease processes, they risk bringing their full humanness to the therapeutic encounter. They not only call on their technological expertise, but on the inner qualities practiced by healers from time immemorial: patience, humility, compassion, and an ability to inspire and mobilize their patients' healing resources." - Ronald S. Miller
"Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness." - Saint Anthony, aka Anthony the Great or Antony the Great, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes, Abba Antonius and Father of All Monks
"Trust not in your wisdom, unless you can master your desire." - Salomon ibn Gabirol, aka Solomon ben Judah or Avicebron
"Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes, because we need them; and He proportions the frequency and the weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust in his skill, and thank him for His prescription." - Isaac Newton, fully Sir Isaac Newton
"Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself." - Walter Raleigh, fully Sir Walter Raleigh
"The discovery of the alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves... You give your disciples not truth but only the semblance of truth; they will be heroes of many things, and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing." - Socrates NULL
"In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. We all know it. There are people we trust absolutely because we know their character." - Stephen Covey, fully Stephen Richards Covey
"Delay not the health of thy soul through trust in friends or in neighbors; for men will forget sooner than thou thinkest; it is better to make provision betimes and send before thee some good than to trust in other men’s help." - Thomas Kempis, aka Thomas à Kempis, Thomas von Kempen, Thomas Haemerkken or Hammerlein or Hemerken or Hämerken
"Trust yourself only, and another shall not betray thee." - Thomas Fuller
"We live in a world that trusts logic, and from that commitment we distrust desire; but if we lived in a world that validated desire, we would know how to trust it." - Thomas Moore
"I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. that process I call God." - Upton Sinclair, fully Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.
"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others." - William Hazlitt
"Love all, trust a few." - William Shakespeare
"Trust not him that hath once broken faith; he who betrayed thee once, will betray thee again." - William Shakespeare
"Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust." - Alexis de Tocqueville, fully Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville
"The potential space between baby and mother, between child and family, between individual and society or the world, depends on experience which loeads to trust. It can be looked upon as sacred to the individual in that it is here that the individual experiences creative living." - D. W. Winicott, fully Donald Woods Winnicott
"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. " - Eric Hoffer
"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired." - Erik Erickson
"Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth" - Evelyn Underhill
"The man of belief is necessarily a dependent man... He does not belong to himself, but to the author of the idea he believes... At every step, one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender to it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life clings otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service...faith makes blessed: consequently, it lies. " - Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Spiritual Partnership... The new female and the new male are partners on a journey of spiritual growth. They want to make the journey. Their love and trust keep them together. Their intuition guides them. They consult with each other. They are friends. They laugh a lot. They are equals. That is what a spiritual partnership is: a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth." - Gary Zukav