Cortney S. Warren

Quotes

• “The more we lie to ourselves about how we are contributing to our problems, the more harm we will cause to ourselves and...”
• “Whether what you learned was objectively true or false, the conclusions that you made about yourself, your environment, ...”
• “It is actually a good survival strategy to manipulate twist, and reorganize the truth in a way that is more consistent w...”
• “I cannot overemphasize the impact our childhood has on our ability to be honest because we live out what we learned as c...”
• “At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false -- or -- not believi...”
• “When you are not aware that you are bringing old learning to your current relationships, you will want to lie about wher...”
• “When we aren't honest with ourselves about who we are and what we want, we allow other people and circumstance to determ...”
• “In fact, lying to ourselves may be the most dangerous thing in the world because we live our truth whether we are honest...”
• “The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about r...”
• “One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselve...”
• “Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others...”
• “We would all benefit by shifting our focus from seeing pain as bad to seeing pain as motivation to change.”
• “We lie to reflect the aspirational goals that we unconsciously know we will not uphold.”
• “When what we say doesn't match how we act, we are lying to ourselves.”