“Force yourself to explain it and you create lies.”

“Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were.”

Dermot Bolger (1959) Irish writer

“lies are curses you place on yourself.”

Kresley Cole book Dead of Winter

“But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“I don't think I have something that's pronounceable as a philosophy. … When it was fashionable to say, "May the Force be with you," I always said, "Force yourself." … I'll say again then, "The Force is within you. Force yourself."”

Harrison Ford (1942) American film actor and producer

“That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Half of a Yellow Sun

“How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?”

James Lee Burke (1936) Novelist, short story writer