21 Quotes by Cortney S. Warren

Humans are excellent liars.

Living through difficult life circumstances in not an excuse for passing trauma onto someone else.

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

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.

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

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

As a clinical psychologist, I am regularly confronted with the brutal truth that we are all lie.

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