Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.

One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves.

We would all benefit by shifting our focus from seeing pain as bad to seeing pain as motivation to change.

The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality.

I cannot overemphasize the impact our childhood has on our ability to be honest because we live out what we learned as children in our adult relationships.

Living through difficult life circumstances in not an excuse for passing trauma onto someone else.

When you are not aware that you are bringing old learning to your current relationships, you will want to lie about where it is coming from.

We lie to reflect the aspirational goals that we unconsciously know we will not uphold.

In fact, lying to ourselves may be the most dangerous thing in the world because we live our truth whether we are honest about it or not.

It is actually a good survival strategy to manipulate twist, and reorganize the truth in a way that is more consistent with what we can psychologically tolerate.

At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false -- or -- not believing something that is true.

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

Win or lose, you are trying, that's what matters.

For every God there is a Satan, and because God made all of us godly, there is a Satan in us all.

It's too cold outsideFor angels to flyAn angel will dieCovered in whiteClosed eyeAnd hoping for a better lifeThis time, we'll fade out tonightStraight down the line

The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Things aren't the way they are, they're the way you are

God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

I don't take myself too seriously. I enjoy what I do. I enjoy making people laugh.

I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.