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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough — that we should try again.”