“And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love, that trust.”

— Kim Harrison

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

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Pseudonym 1966

Paul Tournier (1898–1986) Swiss physician and author, pastoral counsellor

Source: To Understand Each Other

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you."”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

The Distinguished Annie Clark Tanner Lecture, 16th-annual Families Alive Conference, Weber State University, May 8, 1997 - Full text online at weber.edu http://departments.weber.edu/chfam/familiesalive/angelouspeech.html3
Context: I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." … There is an African saying which is: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."

“He who loves trusts the loved one unreservedly, and in all things.”

Alessandro Piccolomini (1508–1579) Italian writer and philosopher

Act III., Scene III. — (Cornelio).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 261.
L’Alessandro (1544)