It can also be agonizing and devastating and it will take Adele 15 years of havoc and heartache to discover just how hard the truth can be.
For twenty-four overwrought minutes, Christie spoke, proudly, glowingly, about the subject that really gets him fired up, which is himself — how he always faces the hard truths; how he wants to be respected more than loved; how, of his two parents, he's much more like his tough, brutally honest Sicilian mother ("I am her son!") than like his good-hearted, lovable Irish father.
But their philosophy of openness raises a good question for all investors: Wouldn't you prefer to know the hard truth of how much you can really expect to gain with your investments?
American Rights at Work analyzed the episode and noted that "the show served up the hard truth about how far employers will go to stop their employees from forming a union".
Our popular culture has dumbed down men to sex- and sports-crazed idiots, with very little space for the nuanced truth of how hard it is to try to be a good dad and a good husband and breadwinner, which is what women still expect of us, all at the same time.
Yet its results also revealed some ugly truths about how hard Goldman is struggling with weak economies and nervous markets.
My role was to support my father, no matter what, and to tell the truth, no matter how hard.
United States Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. said in a statement that the district's voters were deceived in the election and that the case demonstrated "how hard it is to bury the truth forever".
(See Birnbaum's story again on how hard it is to find the truth in Benghazi).
Ms. Fisher was one of a kind--a bold human being who did better ultimately with the truth, no matter how hard it was, than lying and pretending.
