It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way. Jon Katz
About This Quote

This quote is from a book titled, "Why Love Matters" by Elliot Aronson, a professor of psychology at Brandeis University. The author explains that we often tell ourselves lies about ourselves and about others. We imagine that we have it all together or that others have it all together, but in reality we are just as imperfect as everyone else.

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  1. If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
  2. True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.
  3. Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.
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