Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
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S.E. Hinton
Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.
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Steve Maraboli
What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Ryan Holmes
One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves.
We would all benefit by shifting our focus from seeing pain as bad to seeing pain as motivation to change.
The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality.
I cannot overemphasize the impact our childhood has on our ability to be honest because we live out what we learned as children in our adult relationships.
Living through difficult life circumstances in not an excuse for passing trauma onto someone else.
