26 Quotes About Lies We Tell Ourself

It’s always a good idea to know the truth about things in life, but we often don’t. Why not? Because we want to believe what we want to believe and we want to believe the bad stuff, the uncomfortable stuff, the scary stuff, and the hard stuff. There’s something about having to defend your feelings and rationalize your decisions that doesn’t feel good to do, so we rationalize. When we throw in a little denial and excuses here and there, our heads can get all wrapped up in it and forget to look at the truth Read more

We might not like what we see when we look back on it, but that’s exactly why we should do it. Let these quotes help you feel confident in your decisions and always remember that no matter how things turn out, there are always two sides of every story.

You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when...
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You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice. Shannon L. Alder
When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate,...
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When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth. DaShanne Stokes
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If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actually do more harm than good. Witness a nation now more divided; an intergenerational schism in the making; both a governing and opposition party torn to shreds from the inside; infinitely more complex issues raised than satisfactory solutions provided. It begs the question 'Was it really all worth it' ? . Alex Morritt
When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to...
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When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do. DaShanne Stokes
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Is your life story the truth? Yes, the chronological events are true. Is it the whole truth? No, you see and judge it through your conditioned eyes and mind - not of all involved - nor do you see the entire overview. Is it nothing but the truth? No, you select, share, delete, distort, subtract, assume and add what you want, need and choose to. Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Don't spend your life believing a story about yourself that you didn't write that's been fed to you - that simply you've accepted, embedded and added to. Let the story go and there beneath is the real you...and your unique gifts, heart and path that await you. Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies Bangambiki Habyarimana
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The lipstick is a dark, dark red. The kind Hollywood stars wear. Not a shade good girls in Davisburg wear to the movies. I try it on anyway and gaze at my reflection in the mirror. I don't look sick. I certainly don't look like that kind of girl. What does that kind of girl look like, anyway? Robin Talley
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Liar! I know that you humans build your life in lies. It starts with your mortal lords and their fabricated gods. They use fictitious stories to impregnate the minds of people, and like herds of sheep they do as their told. With manipulation alone is enough to secure their reign. After all, is it not in your nature to be wanted and purposeful? It is such an easy game to play. I have observed this falsehood accepted by fathers and mothers over and over again. The idiocy becomes one with their children, and they become the infrastructure that not only sedates but corrodes the soul with instructed conformity. In the end, lies are all that you are. H.S. Crow
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Having all these lies so that you could feel special. It’s time to let go of fantasy and imagined problems. It’s time to embrace the crude and harsh truths. That the existents, the discourses, the frameworks, your words, your meanings, and your definitions, all begin to fade, away, again Camilo Garzon
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It takes extraordinary mental discipline to transmit human experience without perversion. Truth telling is unnatural. Lying is an important aspect of humanity. We lie to other people to prevent hurt feelings and we deceive ourselves in order to protect our noble sense of being a good person. Dishonesty and inaccuracy preserves our quest seeking uninterrupted personal pleasure. I shall eschew pleasure seeking and cultivate precision of mind and moral character that precious truth telling necessitates. Reading and writing, along with observing nature and studious reflection on vivid personal experiences is the process methodology that will bring me closest to discovering inviolate verity of existence and becoming a doyen for all the immaculate truth, beauty, and goodness in this world. . Kilroy J. Oldster
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Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard. DaShanne Stokes
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Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth. DaShanne Stokes
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Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Satan wants you to believe that you don't have a choice in the matter. You can't be happy until things go the way that you want them to. Once you have the perfect marriage, your finances under control, a better job, or a nicer home - then you'll be happy. LIES, LIES, LIES. You will never be happy until you make the decision to do so. Lindsey Rietzsch
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We don't lie to protect the other person. We lie to protect ourselves from the consequences. We lie because we don't want to deal with our own feelings. We lie because we don't want things to change. Not by our hand. So a wall starts to build. Elisa Marie Hopkins
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Apply the lie detector to everything. You will be amazed at how many lies you will discover. Beware tough, you may discover that you are a lie. Bangambiki Habyarimana
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The hard truth is that sometimes we need to lie to ourselves to continue to live Bangambiki Habyarimana
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As old lies are laid to rest, new ones sprout from their ashes, as deadly as their ancestors Bangambiki Habyarimana
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The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you. Shannon L. Alder
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Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others. DaShanne Stokes
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How naive Lore had been, despite being the daughter of a father no one spoke of, despite the strange, incomplete conversations at her mother’s deathbed; how again and again she was caught up short by the discovery that other people had stories they didn’t tell, or told stories that weren’t entirely true. How mostly you got odd chunks torn from the whole, impossible truly to understand in their damaged form. Pamela Erens
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The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves. Carla H. Krueger
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Truth can come to liberate, but not the truth you were taught. Where you always sought refuge. You only met lies since you were born. You were always among the good, although humanity was evil itself. Will that ever make some sense? None and all. Ideally, nothing. Robert Neil Fleischer
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Lying is second nature to him... More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true. Tony Schwartz