Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you’re already learning how to make it less harmful.

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

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

I say what I think and I think what I say.

I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.