“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”

“Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.”

“The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.”

“Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.”

“…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.”

“What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?”

“We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.”

“Everybody thinks they want to see the truth,” said Tenkswa-Tawa. “That’s one of the lies we tell ourselves.”

“Lies," Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. "We tell them to our friends," he said. "We tell them to our enemies. And eventually… we tell them to ourselves.”

“When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.”