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
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- One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves. – Cortney S Warren
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality. – Cortney S Warren
- Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. – James E Faust
- We would all benefit by shifting our focus from seeing pain as bad to seeing pain as motivation to change. – Cortney S Warren
- Living through difficult life circumstances in not an excuse for passing trauma onto someone else. – Cortney S Warren
- 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
- We lie to reflect the aspirational goals that we unconsciously know we will not uphold. – Cortney S Warren
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- Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth. – Robert Graves
- We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that. – Chris Matakas
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- The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact. – Daniel Kahneman
- When you start lying, you stop building trust. When you stop lying, you start building trust. – Saji Ijiyemi
- Perfection is a lie, and lying to others is explicable but lying to oneself is the highest form of deceit. – Chinonye J Chidolue
- Lying is one of the worst of all sins and can be committed by a thought, word, or deed. Anything that is intended to deceive another person is lying. – Billy Graham
- … I’ve run out of options. Stay with the lying psycho or work for the other lying psycho. – HM Ward
- Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die. – Bono
- Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die. – Bono
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- Better an honest devil than a lying angel… – Larry Bonner
- Peace of mind comes with truth. Lying requires you to tell different lies over and over again. Tell the truth! Create beautiful memories. – Amaka Imani Nkosazana
- The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people. – Warren Ellis
- The thing to remember when you’re writing is, it’s not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It’s whether it wakes a truth in your reader. – Charles de Lint
- Tell the truth about any situation & you are delivered from lack of progress, but become hypocritical or lying, and you may be in bondage for life. – AuliqIce
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- Let’s be honest, honest it’s important. I don’t care about you, don’t say bullshit and if there isn’t any important thing please don’t write me. – Deyth Banger
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- You Can Not Be Honest With Others, If You Are Not First Honest With Yourself. – Chris Mentillo
- The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!--œThe only honest things I can say to you are insults. – Brandon Sanderson
- (I)f you’re not honest with yourself, life will never be honest with you. – Leigh Brackett
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- CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend?CLOWN: No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.CASSIO: Prithee, keep up thy quillets. – William Shakespeare
- Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment. – Sharon Salzberg