Telling the Truth

Sometimes it is easier to pretend.

Sometimes telling the truth is quite difficult.

and sometimes i can't stop myself.

so i thought i would look it up. 

some quotes about telling the truth:  ( all copied from here)

“The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.” -Henry David Thoreau

“Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships.” -Unknown

“Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Truth never tranquilizes. The defining property of truth is its ability to disturb.” -Solomon Short

“Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” -Maya Angelou

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.” -George Elliot

“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.” -Martin Luther


i think the quote that most strikes me today is the one from Maya Angelou. 
courage.

it takes courage to be kind, true, merciful, generous and honest.

May i continue to live and love with courage.