True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What's sadder is when they are Christian.
~ Shannon L. Alder
A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
From what I’d witnessed, honesty didn’t really make anyone happy. The truth was a punch to the gut, and while you were falling, a knee to the face, then you could lie on the floor and bleed for a spell.
~ Tanya Thompson