42 Quotes About Lies-we-tell-ourselves

Is your life story the truth? Yes, the chronological events are true. Is it the whole truth? No, you see and judge it through your conditioned eyes and mind - not of all involved - nor do you see the entire overview. Is it nothing but the truth? No, you select, share, delete, distort, subtract, assume and add what you want, need and choose to.

Felix lied often and easily in his life. As long as it was for the right reasons, he didn’t see why he shouldn’t. Reality was the fiction that you painted it to be. Painting it the way he liked instead of falling victim to someone else’s brush just made him smarter, didn’t it?

Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.

You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.

When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.

Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.

Satan wants you to believe that you don't have a choice in the matter. You can't be happy until things go the way that you want them to. Once you have the perfect marriage, your finances under control, a better job, or a nicer home - then you'll be happy. LIES, LIES, LIES. You will never be happy until you make the decision to do so.

How naive Lore had been, despite being the daughter of a father no one spoke of, despite the strange, incomplete conversations at her mother’s deathbed; how again and again she was caught up short by the discovery that other people had stories they didn’t tell, or told stories that weren’t entirely true. How mostly you got odd chunks torn from the whole, impossible truly to understand in their damaged form.

We find the truth only when are searching for it. Sometimes the truth may be right in front of our eyes, but we may not see it because that's not what we are seeking for.