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Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.

Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.
– Cortney S Warren

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  1. At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false — or — not believing something that is true. – Cortney S Warren
  2. At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false — or — not believing something that is true. – Cortney S Warren
  3. At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false — or — not believing something that is true. – Cortney S Warren
  4. One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves. – Cortney S Warren
  5. Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves. – Clancy Martin
  6. The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality. – Cortney S Warren
  7. The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves. – Bill W
  8. Art is a deception that creates real emotions – a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic. – Marco Tempest
  9. We would all benefit by shifting our focus from seeing pain as bad to seeing pain as motivation to change. – Cortney S Warren
  10. Living through difficult life circumstances in not an excuse for passing trauma onto someone else. – Cortney S Warren
  11. When you are not aware that you are bringing old learning to your current relationships, you will want to lie about where it is coming from. – Cortney S Warren
  12. We lie to reflect the aspirational goals that we unconsciously know we will not uphold. – Cortney S Warren
  13. In fact, lying to ourselves may be the most dangerous thing in the world because we live our truth whether we are honest about it or not. – Cortney S Warren
  14. Tragic as it is when a child fails to develop physically or mentally, even more tragic is a Christian who fails to develop spiritually. – Billy Graham
  15. What’s tragic isn’t that we can’t retaliate…What’s truly tragic is……being consumed with vengeance and not being able to live your life. – Sui Ishida
  16. Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure. – Terry Pratchett
  17. Self respect, self worth and self love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value. – Rob Liano
  18. Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  19. We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived. – Billy Graham
  20. What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. – George Eliot
  21. There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. – Maya Angelou
  22. …perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others. – Anne Perry
  23. I’d like to say I’m not self-absorbed compared to others, but that’s hard to say since I’m far too self-absorbed to pry into others’ self-absorption. – Anonymous
  24. Anything is possible if you just believe. But if you want to start believing, start with yourself. – Dulara Perera
  25. One has to get rid of the self. Once the self is thrown away, nothing is lacking. You start overflowing and blossoms start falling on you. – Osho
  26. I don’t teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true. – Patricia A McKillip
  27. The salvation of the species, lies in knowing the Self -“ it lies in contributing to the wellbeing of the Selves of others. – Abhijit Naskar
  28. Yeah… they tell you to work from the inside, which is perhaps their greatest deception of all… – Josh Burggraf
  29. Jealousy stings, envy poisons, anger harms, and hate murders. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  30. Talk only if it’s worth, else it harms your worth only. – Vikrmn
  31. Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’. – Idries Shah
  32. You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger. – Carrie Jones
  33. It’s a sin only if it harms you – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  34. No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer – Naguib Mahfouz
  35. If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control. – Anonymous
  36. Develop a strong opinion about yourself so that you don’t accidentally start believing what others say about you. – Akin Olokun
  37. Develop a strong opinion about yourself so that you don’t accidentally start believing what others say about you. – Akin Olokun
  38. …someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I’m a collector of shavings. – Saa Stanii
  39. There is nothing so cunning as tangled deception. If you wish to seek out the truth, first uncover the lies that surround the illusion… – Virginia Alison
  40. Your nature may carry deception and lies, but then it won’t stop me from loving you – Alok Jagawat

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