Donald Miller Quotes

We can all go up to each other and be honest with each other. That's the biggest thing, when you can go out and speak to your brother.

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.

I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep.

I think secrets are something that you keep or are afraid to share because you think they're going to harm you in some way. So if you don't have any secrets, then there's no way anyone can harm you.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.

The only way to move forward is to be able to trust whomever you're with 100 percent.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

It takes people a while to trust you.

In relationships, you want to be secure but not know what's coming next. Everyone has to have secrets, but if I'm asked a question, I'll answer honestly.

I believe in commitment. I believe in being open and trusting each other and respecting each other completely.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.

There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

I can count on one hand how many people I trust.

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

I'm not good at keeping secrets.

I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

It is very difficult to trust anyone and I always find that hard in relationships.

You can have levels of trust, and you can question trust, but it shouldn't be something that's absent. I think, for any sort of relationship, there has to be levels of that.

I don't think it's healthy to have secrets; they hang over a family for generations.

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.