Top 57 Lies We Tell Ourselves Quotes
#2. I went on to say that no lies, after all, were as strong as the lies we tell ourselves and then unfortunately have to keep telling to make the whole puke stay down in our stomachs, eating us alive, as he would find out soon enough.
Alice Munro
#3. The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.
Lewis B. Smedes
#4. If we could see a graph of how much pain and limitation we cause in our own lives through the lies we tell ourselves, we would immediately eliminate this nasty habit.
Steve Maraboli
#6. We are partners in our own deception. The lies we tell ourselves. The life we have settled for, when we yearn for the life we wish for. We become our own worst enemy as we yearn for the things we don't have and discredit the gifts we have.
Tony Curl
#7. And you take care, too, Shahara. Remember the lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. (Nero)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#8. Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.
Rich Mullins
#9. The biggest liar you will ever meet is yourself. It is amazing the lies we tell ourselves because of fear.
Bryant McGill
#10. There is nothing more dangerous, nothing more powerful, nothing more necessary and essential for survival than the lies we tell ourselves. I
Megan Miranda
#11. Excuses are easy lies we tell ourselves to cover up our failures.
James Altucher
#12. One of the great lies we tell ourselves is that just because we're related to people, we have to like them.
Michael Thomas Ford
#13. The lies we tell ourselves are the worst ones.
Andrea Cremer
#14. We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.
Ilsa J. Bick
#15. Reality blithely ignores the lies we tell ourselves about it.
Chris Cogan
#16. The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.
James Wolcott
#17. The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.
Richard Bach
#18. Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.
Brent Weeks
#19. The truth may hurt, but it is never so agonizing as the dagger of lies we tell ourselves.
Wayne Thomas Batson
#20. As old lies are laid to rest, new ones sprout from their ashes, as deadly as their ancestors
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#21. ... we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.
Philip K. Dick
#22. Other people will try to decide things for you, she says. They'll try to tell you who you are. Remember, no matter what they say, you're the only who really decides.
Robin Talley
#23. Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#24. The worst lies of all are the ones we tell ourselves. They are the most damaging.
Deborah King
#26. We are the stories we tell about ourselves. But when those stories are lies, we are the most surprised of all.
Brent Weeks
#27. One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
H. Rap Brown
#28. Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.
Ally Carter
#29. Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
Sharon Salzberg
#30. The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.
Carla H. Krueger
#31. The lies we tell about ourselves may be more revealing than the truths we incautiously reveal.
James Edwin Gunn
#32. In a world full of lies, the most dangerous ones are those we tell ourselves.
Diana B. Henriques
#33. Sarah's right. We punish ourselves so much in our own imaginations. We convince ourselves everything we do, everything we think, is wrong.
For eighteen years I've believed what other people told me about what was right and what was wrong. From now. I'm deciding.
Robin Talley
#34. 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
#35. The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
V.S. Naipaul
#36. In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.
Derrick Jensen
#37. Finally, it's not the lies we tell others that do the most damage, it's those we tell ourselves. From this all troubles rise.
Anthony McCarten
#38. 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
#39. The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.
Brad Meltzer
#40. Don't be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.
Dianna Hardy
#41. We tell ourselves lies to survive when we know the truth will kill us." "It
Tiffany Reisz
#42. Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#43. For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
Derrick Jensen
#44. We all tell lies to protect our solitude. We deny the truth and present a false image of ourselves to blend into society.
Saleem Haddad
#45. 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
#46. The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some sections, enhancing others. What remains are not the cold facts of life, but how we perceive them. That's really who we are.
Kirk Douglas
#47. Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another person. We can use them to tell stories and lies. We can misquote them and change what other people said to make ourselves look good ...
Joan Bauer
#48. The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.
Shannon L. Alder
#49. We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
#50. We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls.
Sarah McCoy
#51. The worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves. we live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we are afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we will lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.
Richard Bach
#52. ...The lies we tell, and let ourselves believe, in the name of love.
The first thing you should know is that everyone lies. The second thing is that it matters.
Carla Buckley
#53. Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Jim Morrison
#54. Lies," Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. "We tell them to our friends," he said. "We tell them to our enemies. And eventually ... we tell them to ourselves.
Ally Carter
#56. Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we're asleep.
Rebecca McNutt
#57. There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.
Todd Rundgren
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