Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.
Steve MaraboliTags: truth honesty success happiness self-deception lying potential deny
As for self-deceit, most people find it as essential for survival as air. You rarely indulge in it.
Dean KoontzTags: self-deception indulge lying-to-ourselves
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.
Criss JamiTags: honesty self-deception genius excuses fool deceit misunderstood nonsense
How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.
George EliotTags: self-deception arrogance depravity
Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is a new phenomenon, which is why the phrase "the good old days" has passed from cliché to self-parody.
Anna QuindlenTags: society morals self-deception prejudice class-warfare immigration crime cliches parody social-change xenophobia social-norms exclusion nostaliga
You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: fanaticism madness self-deception delusion zealots neurosis mental-health extremism fanatics psychosis cults religious-extremism guerrilla-decontextualism political-extremism
To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?
Pascal MercierTags: illusions perception honesty self-deception understanding self-awareness character self-knowledge self-image personality
The Soul Toupee is that thing about ourselves we are most deeply embarrassed by and like to think we have cunningly concealed from the world, but which is, in fact, pitifully obvious to everybody who knows us.
Tim KreiderTags: self-deception
Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able to disarm them and even, in some cases, to employ and enjoy them. This self-knowledge opens up a whole new world before us, rich in beauty and subtlety, and frees us not only to take the best out of it, but also to give it back the best of ourselves, and, in so doing, to fulfil our potential as human beings. I don't really think it's a choice.
Neel BurtonTags: happiness self-deception fulfilment ego-defences
Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.
Pascal MercierTags: illusions deception self-deception kitsch
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