Kwaku Person-Lynn Quotes

The truth is harsh." Anubis said. "Spirits come to the Hall of Judgement all the time, and they cannot let go of their lies. They deny their faults, their true feelings, their mistakes.......right up until Ammit devours their souls for eternity. It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Mythology distracts us everywhere.

When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

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

I'm a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn't change things.

Facts make you face stuff about yourself you'd rather not see.

You cannot hide yourself from any situation.

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does

Truth carries with it confrontation.

I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it.

Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

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

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere.

Recognize reality even when you don't like it-especially when you don't like it.

The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.

There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

You can't conquer reality by running away from it.