You have the right to remain silence but you can never repeat, never lie or shade the truth.
Anonymous.
“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
― Spencer Johnson
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
― Oscar Wilde
Once you have seen the truth you must make the decision to let go
of the pain, anger, and resentment you have been holding on to.
This requires you to take action.
If you are attached to your pain, resentment,
and self-righteousness, and addicted to your emotional reactions,
this will be a difficult step for you.
Taking action requires letting go of the very thing
you have been holding on to for so many years.
There is comfort in what we find familiar,
even if we are experiencing pain and suffering.
The pain and suffering itself becomes the familiarity we seek.
It takes absolute faith in yourself
plus courage, will, and discipline to let go.But once you let go, it will be as if
the weight of the world has been taken off your shoulders.
In this process it is important to forgive
not just the others in our lives, but also ourselves.
For most people, giving ourselves
the gift of forgiveness is very challenging.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Speaking the truth gives a clear conscience, peace of mind, fearlessness in any situation and the courage to move bravely on in life.
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.
One word of truth outweighs the world.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.”
― James E. Faust
“It takes strength and courage to admit the .”
Rick Riordan
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner
Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.”
― Barbara De Angelis
“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”
― Criss Jami
“I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.”
― Scott Westerfeld
“We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.”
― Kami Garcia
“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”
Tim O'Brien,
“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
― André Gide
Truth is transparent, truth is universal, truth is everlasting, truth is one and truth is god. It is very hard to hide the truth how much ever you try and therefore, being true is next to godliness.