Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.

When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.

And once trust is broken, it takes a long time to heal—if it ever heals at all. Sadly, during my career, I saw several people—sharp, talented people—lose trust and never regain it.

Trust is a precious quality. An essential quality. Once lost it is not quick or easy to rebuild.

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

Trust is a chain that gets longer the less you pull on it.

Grief shatters. If you let yourself shatter and then you put yourself back together, piece by piece, you wake up one day and realize that you have been completely reassembled.

For trust not him that hath once broken faith

The limits of trust depend much on whether you mean to do business more than once.

In a world where reality bends, trust becomes the only constant—and even that fractures.

Without trust, communication breaks. Here’s why: In any human interaction the required amount of community is inversely proportional to the level of trust.

Integrity is a fortress; once breached, it takes a lifetime to rebuild.

Trust is earned in drops but lost in buckets.

Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.