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What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

— Jane Wiedlin

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I've always been a person that is searching for truth and always wants to go further, deeper.

— Lykke Li

Sometimes I got scared of being too honest, because being in the public eye, I have always tried to hide my personal life. But I realized that isn't healthy.

— Hilary Duff

With each thing that you do, all the fears in life and safeguards block out, or obscure, who you truly are. I think that just a glimpse of the person ever comes through in most material.

— Matthew Shultz

I spent the first 33 years of my life with secrets, and lots of them. I spent a great deal of energy worrying over what people thought and obscuring the things I was ashamed of... trying to appear what I thought was normal.

— Bill Clegg

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

— Sarah McLachlan

The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.

— Dan Chaon

The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear.

— Liberty Ross

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.

— Tamar Braxton

The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.

— Laurieann Gibson

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

— Giacomo Casanova