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Meister Eckhart, formally Meister von Hochheim
There is nothing to test the perfection of love better than trust. Wholehearted love for another person carries confidence with it. Whatever one dares to trust God for, he really finds in God and a thousand times more.
Better | Confidence | God | Love | Nothing | Perfection | Trust | God |
Morrie Schwartz, fully Morris "Morrie" S. Schwartz
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.
Important | Life | Life | Meaning | People | Purpose | Purpose | Trust | Wrong |
Mikhail Bakunin, fully Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
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!
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
All warriors may see an example of their common frailty, and learn a lesson that there is nothing durable or constant? For what time can men select to think themselves secure, when that of victory itself forces us more than any to dread our own fortune?
Dread | Example | Fortune | Lesson | Men | Nothing | Time | Learn | Think |
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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.
Death | Enough | Good | Grief | Life | Life | Man | Pain | Soul | Trust |
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Trust |
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.
Glory | Inspiration | Joy | Smile | Trust | Friendship |
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Trust |
We have in the notion of God absolute immensity, simplicity, and a unity that embraces all other attributes; and of this idea we find no example in us.
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.
Glory | God | Inspiration | Joy | Smile | Trust | Friendship | God | Friends |
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Creativity | Hope | Trust | Work |