Abraham Lincoln:
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four; calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Adrienne Rich:
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
I had to think on this one a minute...but it's true. When we don't put up a front, other people are released to be real, too.
Benjamin Disraeli:
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Henry Ward Beecher:
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.
very true, but how many of us would accept such friendship?
Virginia Woolf:
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
