There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality.
Steve MaraboliTag: life success happiness reality soul lying mirror
Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.
Steve MaraboliTag: truth honesty success happiness self-deception lying potential deny
Were you lying?"
"I never lie," he said piously. "About what?"
"The sand, the snake."
For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.
You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.
Dean KoontzTag: honesty lying sincerity lamb
Lying didn't feel good; it just felt familiar.
Adrienne deWolfeI suppose if we gain anything from this unsought experience it will be an appreciation for honesty- frankness on the part of our politicians, our friends, our loves, ourselves. No more liars in public places. (And the bed and the bar are, in their way, as public as the floor of Congress.)
Tim O'BrienTag: politics honesty war lying
Oh, the unintended consequences of perfidy!
Andrew LevkoffTag: lying unintended-consequences perfidy
The funny thing about a lie is that once it has been said and believed, it lives and becomes. It can't be taken back. It sucks all the air from you until you give up and it takes over and you forget how to breathe on your own. It is like those parasitic relationships, but not like the shark and the little remora that politely cleans the shark's skin and sometimes attaches itself to its underbelly. No, it is more like a tapeworm eating someone from the inside out.
Carrie ArcosTag: lie lying out-of-reach
Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.
Neal ShustermanTag: truth power fate lie lying
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
Mark TwainTag: humor lying twain mark-twain
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