Lies we tell ourselves Quotes

“The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality.”

“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.”

“We have been having a Ménage à trois with the lies that others told us and the lies we tell ourselves for so long that we have convinced ourselves that it is normalcy. When we begin to read, hear or even see truth our minds reject it and our minds’ eye closes to what we view as temptation; as if we would be cheating on our trio so instead we cheat ourselves out of knowledge and growth.”