Quotes by Cortney S. Warren, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception

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