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Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with untruth, seek truth! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
Deceiving yourself is a gateway to harming your future self. ~ Angel Moreira
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Angel Moreira
Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light? ~ Bodhidharma
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Bodhidharma
Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, "I am of no value", is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought- so what are you lacking? If you have willpower, then you can change anything. It is usually said that you are your own master. ~ Dalai Lama
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Dalai Lama
The U.S. Government hasn't maintained secrecy regarding UFOs. It's been leaking out all over the place. But the way it's been handled is by denial, by denying the truth of the documents that have leaked. By attempting to show them as fraudulent, as bogus of some sort. There has been a very large disinformation and misinformation effort around this whole area. And one must wonder, how better to hide something out in the open than just to say, 'It isn't there. You're deceiving yourself if you think this is true.' And yet, there it is right in front of you. ~ Edgar Mitchell
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Edgar Mitchell
Man ordinarily lives in loneliness. To avoid loneliness, he creates all kinds of relationships, friendships, organizations, political parties, religions and what not. But the basic thing is that he is very much afraid of being lonely. Loneliness is a black hole, a darkness, a frightening negative state almost like death … as if you are being swallowed by death itself. To avoid it, you run out and fall into anybody, just to hold somebody's hand, to feel that you are not lonely… Nothing hurts more than loneliness.
But the trouble is, any relationship that arises out of the fear of being lonely is not going to be a blissful experience, because the other is also joining you out of fear. You both call it love. You are both deceiving yourself and the other. It is simply fear, and fear can never be the source of love. Only those who love are absolutely fearless; only those who love are able to be alone, joyously, whose need for the other has disappeared, who are sufficient unto themselves…

The day you decide that all these efforts are failures, that your loneliness has remained untouched by all your efforts, that is a great moment of understanding. Then only one thing remains: to see whether loneliness is such a thing that you should be afraid of, or if it is just your nature. Then rather than running out and away, you close your eyes and go in. Suddenly the night is over, and a new dawn … The loneliness transforms into aloneness.

Aloneness is your nature. ~ Osho
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Osho
Every human being has the same potential. Whatever makes you feel "I am worthless" is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought, so what could you possibly be lacking? If you have the willpower, then you can do anything. ~ Dalai Lama XIV
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Dalai Lama XIV
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself. ~ Bodhidharma
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Bodhidharma
And when your wife is not the same person you fell in love with eight years ago, where exactly does that leave you? Do you try to get to know who she has become, and hope for the best? Or do you keep deceiving yourself in the hope that she might wake up one morning and have gone back to the woman she used to be? ~ Jodi Picoult
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Jodi Picoult
Once I knew nothing about McKay and now I knew everything about him. This seemed as good as any reason for not walking out the door. There are so many ways to stop the knowing, and I tried them all. I tried silence, I tried heroin, I tried calling it love. And then I stopped trying to call my dumbness any one of ten thousand names. ~ Alice Hoffman
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Alice Hoffman
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence. ~ Woodrow Wilson
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Woodrow Wilson
At the end of a life spent in the pursuit of knowledge Faust has to confess:
"I now see that we can nothing know."
That is the answer to a sum, it is the outcome of a long experience. But as Kierkegaard observed, it is quite a different thing when a freshman comes up to the university and uses the same sentiment to justify his indolence. As the answer to a sum it is perfectly true, but as the initial data it is a piece of self-deception. For acquired knowledge cannot be divorced from the existence in which it is acquired. The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort. ~ Spiro T. Agnew
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Spiro T. Agnew
He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It appears to be a re-run of a bad movie. [Iraqi President Saddam Hussein] is delaying. He's deceiving. He's asking for time. He's playing hide-and-seek with inspectors. One thing is for certain - he's not disarming. ~ George W. Bush
Deceiving Yourself quotes by George W. Bush
It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence. ~ William Faulkner
Deceiving Yourself quotes by William Faulkner
Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle. ~ Umberto Eco
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Umberto Eco
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion. ~ Guru Nanak
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Guru Nanak
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. ~ Juvenal
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Juvenal
People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really values. The same thing applies to money that applies to time. I make a practice of watching what people do, never what they say. Whatever is important, to anyone sane, he will make a place for it; people live out their values. Values are different in this respect from "ideals," which are typically vain and effete and thus exist mostly for the sake of promoting self-delusions. ~ Kenny Smith
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Kenny Smith
TARKIN: The wench hath lied! Deceiving,
cut-throat girl,
Most cunning princess born of
Hell's own heart! ~ Ian Doescher
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Ian Doescher
Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself. ~ Marjorie Bowen
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Marjorie Bowen
The devil sweeps people away by deceiving them, showing them a happy life only in the movies ~ Sunday Adelaja
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Sunday Adelaja
Blissfully unaware of all that, Elizabeth continued to love him without reservation or guile, and as she grew more certain of his love, she became more confident and more enchanting to Ian. On those occasions when she saw his expression become inexplicably grim, she teased him or kissed him, and, if those ploys failed, she presented him with little gifts-a flower arrangement from Havenhurst's gardens, a single rose that she stuck behind his ear, or left upon his pillow. "Shall I have to resort to buying you a jewel to make you smile, my lord?" she joked one day three months after they were married. "I understand that is how it is done when a lover begins to act distracted."
To Elizabeth's surprise, her remark made him snatch her into his arms in a suffocating embrace. "I am not losing interest in you, if that's what you're suggesting," he told her.
Elizabeth leaned back in his arms, surprised by the unwarranted force of his declaration, and continued to tease. "You're quite certain?"
"Positive."
"You wouldn't lie to me, would you?" she asked in a voice of mock severity.
"I would never lie to you," Ian said gravely, but then he realized that by withholding the truth from her, he was, in effect, deceiving her, which in turn, amounted to little less than lying outright.
Elizabeth knew something was bothering him, and that as time passed, it was bothering him with increasing frequency, but she never dreamed she was even remotely the cause of his sile ~ Judith McNaught
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Judith McNaught
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society. ~ Samuel Johnson
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Samuel Johnson
A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice. ~ Joseph Butler
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Joseph Butler
In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him. ~ Pierre Bayle
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Pierre Bayle
Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth. ~ R.D. Laing
Deceiving Yourself quotes by R.D. Laing
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived. ~ Sissela Bok
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Sissela Bok
Forgiven? No. I am a bad, low woman; I despise myself and don't attempt to justify myself. It's not my husband but myself I have deceived. And not only just now; I have been deceiving myself for a long time. ~ Anton Chekhov
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Anton Chekhov
The only rule Muslims know is to win. It does not matter how. All rules can be broken as long as they win the war. They can lie, they can deceive, they can break their treaties as Muhammad did, they can ambush or use terror, assassinate, massacre the children and bomb civilians. Muslims can even kill each other as long as this improves their chance of winning. ~ Ali Sina
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Ali Sina
Hearts can deceive. Words can deceive. But eyes we should trust. ~ Cesare Borgia
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Cesare Borgia
Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does. ~ Karl Germain
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Karl Germain
If the angle you're going at is there's some kind of quid pro quo - there isn't. Business is business, and people are allowed to make money. Looks can be deceiving, because there's no quid pro quo here. ~ Mike Miller
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Mike Miller
Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving. ~ Aaron Hill
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Aaron Hill
A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher. But a daughter is a different matter. ~ Anton Chekhov
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Anton Chekhov
History deals with situations and figures not imaginary but real. It demands therefore a combination of qualities unnecessary to the poet or writer of romance - glacial judgment coupled with fervent sympathy. The poet may be an uninspired illiterate, the romance-writer an uninspired hack. Under no circumstances can either of them be accused of wrongdoing or deceiving the public, however incongruous their efforts. They write well or badly, and there the matter ends. The historian, who fails in his duty, deceives the reader and wrongs the dead. ~ Norman Douglas
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Norman Douglas
When it comes to humans... or anything for that matter, looks can be deceiving and so can actions. ~ Angie Anomalous
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Angie Anomalous
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great length. If not for our excessive vanity and our over-active imaginations, novelists might be unusually difficult to deceive. ~ William Gibson
Deceiving Yourself quotes by William Gibson
Once this bubble of self-deception is burst and the mask that shielded her and others from what she wished to ignore is lifted, it is difficult for the woman to return to her life as it was. It has been said that "the discovery of a deceiving principle, a lying activity within us, can furnish an absolutely new view of all conscious life." This reawakened awareness changes the upscale abused woman's life forever. Suddenly, new choices stand before her. This can be a frightening and sad phase in therapy, a moment when the woman is grappling with a kaleidoscope of loss and potential future gain. Some women experience this period as the dark night of the soul. It can be sickening to face the truths one has chosen to ignore in hopes of maintaining the status quo. Even if the woman wishes to stay married, she will never perceive her life in the same way again. ~ Susan Weitzman
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Susan Weitzman
If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling. ~ Paul Washer
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Paul Washer
Hunger is an object.
The angel has climbed into my brain.
The angel doesn't think. He thinks straight.
He's never absent.
He knows my boundaries and he knows his direction.
He knows where I come from and he knows what he does to me.
He knew all this before he met me, and he knows my future.
He lingers in every capillary like quicksilver. First a sweetness in my throat. Then pressure on my stomach and chest. The fear is too much.
Everything has become lighter.
The hunger angel leans to one side as he walks with open eyes. He staggers around in small circles and balances on my breath-swing. He knows the homesickness in the brain and the blind alleys in the air.
The air angel leans to the other side as he walks with open hunger.
H whispers to himself and to me: where there is loading there can also be unloading. He is of the same flesh that he is deceiving. Will have deceived.
He knows about saved bread and cheek-bread and he sends out the white hare.
He says he's coming back but stays where he is.
When he comes, he comes with force.
It's utterly clear:
1 shovel load = 1 gram bread.
Hunger is an object. ~ Herta Muller
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Herta Muller
Perhaps that's its strength. The flexibility. The fragility. Appearances ... " He paused. " ... are often deceiving. ~ Julie Anne Long
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Julie Anne Long
Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent. ~ Neal Shusterman
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Neal Shusterman
So what is it that you are doing - seeking security in your restlessness? The desire to be secure is one of the most curious things. And that security must be recognized by the world; I don't know whether you see this. I write a book and in the book I find my security. But that book must be recognized by the world, otherwise there is no security. So look what I've done - my security lies in the opinion of the world!...So it means I am deceiving myself constantly. ~ Krishnamurti
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Krishnamurti
No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. ~ John Milton
Deceiving Yourself quotes by John Milton
I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. ~ Jeanette Winterson
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Jeanette Winterson
Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Certainly one of the most important things I learned is that numbers can be deceiving. There is a logic to mathematics, but there is also the underlying human element that must be considered. Numbers can't lie, but the people who create those numbers can and do. As so many people have learned, forgetting to include human nature in an equation can be devastating. ~ Harry Markopolos
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Harry Markopolos
I have only in my life carried to an extreme what you have not dared to carry halfway, and what's more, you have taken your cowardice for good sense, and have found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that perhaps, after all, there is more life in me than in you. ~ Michael Finkel
Deceiving Yourself quotes by Michael Finkel
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