Trust Being Earned Quotes & Sayings

I think what you mostly do when you find you really are alone is to panic. You rush to the opposite extreme and pack yourself into groups - clubs, teams, societies, types. You suddenly start dressing exactly like the others. It's a way of being invisible. The way you sew the patches on the holes in your blue jeans becomes incredibly important. If you do it wrong you're not with it. That's a peculiar phrase, you know? With it. With what? With them. With the others. All together. Safety in numbers. I'm not me. I'm a basketball letter. I'm a popular kid. I'm my friend's friend. I'm a black leather growth on a Honda. I'm a member. I'm a teenager. You can't see me, all you can see is us. We're safe. And if We see You standing alone by yourself, if you're lucky we'll ignore you. If you're not lucky, we might throw rocks. Because we don't like people standing there with the wrong kind of patches on their jeans reminding us that we're each alone and none of us is safe. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Finally, you are in the most magical world having the most wonderful time. Let us not fill it with stress or anxieties. — Debasish Mridha

Being idolized and being torn down felt oddly similar. They both made me feel alone.
Friendship and trust should be earned, and when you're famous, people seem to want to give them to you whether you've earned them or not, and it felt dishonest to me. Fame was not real. It was all a projection - fame made me a blank canvas that people projected their love, lust, troubles, self-worth, and desire upon.
Fame and power do not change us, they amplify us. — Jewel

Perhaps the wind blows anger away. — Alan Bradley

[The pioneers] woke up each morning with clearly defined purposes and goals that everyone understood: to serve God. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The universe isn't for or against us; it isn't even indifferent. — Marty Rubin

We will not be used. We will not let them change us. They think we are property? They are mistaken. — Scott Sigler

I don't have the slightest idea what my future holds, but what I do know is that I am capable of figuring it out, and I'm okay being me while I do that. I have earned the right to trust myself. And this feels like freedom to me. My — Lucetta Zaytoun

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem. — Tom Holt

Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife. — Eugene Ormandy

Vulnerability is about sharing our feelings and our experiences with people who have earned the right to hear them. Being vulnerable and open is mutual and an integral part of the trust-building process. — Brene Brown

They ordered the extermination
of all minds they couldn't control — Tupac Shakur

Punishment doesn't mean you aren't loved. On the contrary. You can only punish someone you love. — Catherynne M Valente