Quotation...

...in order to understand (the) larger truths, you must first accept the smaller truths about yourself.  This requires sacrifice.  We live our lives hiding from the things that displease and discomfort us.  We reinvent ourselves and our history, constantly placing things in a light most favorable to us.  It is in the nature of mankind to this.   Mostly, our deceptions are small ones.  But they gather weight through numbers, and having them revealed all at once can be crushing.   "Ilse Witch -The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara Trilogy," page 376, Terry Brooks, Ballantine Books, New York.