Accepting the Truth Quotes

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it." "Are you saying we shouldn't hope?" "I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!

The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

You have just got to face the facts, don't you? I face it head-on. I knew what I was coming in to. I didn't make the impact I hoped for and I believed in.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.

Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.

No point in ignoring the truth. Doesn't make it worse to have it said out loud.

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

One and all have to face reality now.

Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

I deal with what "is," not with what I wish was or not with what was or used to be.

...if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.

I was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I've walked this way

Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.

I’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.

I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

…It’s not that you don’t have the capacity to accept the truth. You don’t want to accept it, and you hide behind your own logic and intelligence while the truth marches by. Step out and join it, for goodness’’ sake! Shout it out in full step! I believe!

There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.