21 Quotes by Cortney S. Warren

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.

The areas in which we felt most insecure, unsafe, unloved, uncomfortable, embarrassed, angry, and generally unresolved as a child are the areas that we will be most prone to self-deception as an adult.

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.

One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves.

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.

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

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.

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.