Truth.

The truth hurts sometimes...

It hurts the most when we didn't realize something was true and we're told it is.

Painful truth is pretty unexpected, but if you think about those times in your life, 

those are the times we learn the most about who we truly are.

Because the truth giver may hurt us by telling the truth, the truth may hurt us.

But in the middle of that pain, 

we dig somewhere inside ourselves and learn about who we are by how we react.

So like I said, the truth hurts sometimes, but at the end of it...

we learn to grow.