“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.”

“When what we say doesn't match how we act, we are lying to ourselves.”

“When we aren't honest with ourselves about who we are and what we want, we allow other people and circumstance to determine our life course.”

“We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choices.”

“At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false -- or -- not believing something that is true.”

“Whether what you learned was objectively true or false, the conclusions that you made about yourself, your environment, and other people will be replayed in your life because they become a part of who you are.”

“The more we lie to ourselves about how we are contributing to our problems, the more harm we will cause to ourselves and our relationships because we will blame others for undesirable aspects of our lives instead of taking responsibility for our role.”

“It is actually a good survival strategy to manipulate twist, and reorganize the truth in a way that is more consistent with what we can psychologically tolerate.”

“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.”

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

“We lie to reflect the aspirational goals that we unconsciously know we will not uphold.”