Cortney Warren Quotes & Sayings

If you drop the lamb, just pick it up. Who's going to know? — Julia Child

It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities. — M. Ward

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. — Cortney S. Warren

I can't go on like this. I'm not the guy who cheats on his girlfriend wishing all the time she was someone else."
Elation and fear washed over me in equal measure. "Cam, I ... "
"You want this. I know you do. — Samantha Young

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. — Cortney S. Warren

When what we say doesn't match how we act, we are lying to ourselves. — Cortney S. Warren

The truth is that pain is not inherently bad for us; pain is information. — Cortney S. Warren

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

Whether what you learned was objectively true or false, the conclusions that you made about yourself, your environment, and other people will be replayed in your life because they become a part of who you are. — Cortney S. Warren

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. — Cortney S. Warren

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

As a clinical psychologist, I am regularly confronted with the brutal truth that we are all lie. — Cortney S. Warren

The small family farm is dying; people's lives are being dislocated. — Bobbie Ann Mason

There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes. — Sean Brady

Self-deception comes from not having enough psychological strength to admit the truth and deal with the consequences that will follow when the truth is acknowledges. — Cortney S. Warren

We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choices. — Cortney S. Warren

The areas in which we felt most insecure, unsafe, unloved, uncomfortable, embarrassed, angry, and generally unresolved as a child are the areas that we will be most prone to self-deception as an adult. — Cortney S. Warren

We lie to reflect the aspirational goals that we unconsciously know we will not uphold. — Cortney S. Warren

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

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. — Cortney S. Warren

You saw him, said hello, how's tricks . . . — Richard Price

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

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

Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

When we aren't honest with ourselves about who we are and what we want, we allow other people and circumstance to determine our life course. — Cortney S. Warren

The more we lie to ourselves about how we are contributing to our problems, the more harm we will cause to ourselves and our relationships because we will blame others for undesirable aspects of our lives instead of taking responsibility for our role. — Cortney S. Warren

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

In an age of abstract experience, fornication
Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria,
And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients;
Patients, wards of society. Whores, by that rule,
Are precious. — Allen Tate

Eun Gi. Let's run away. I will go wherever you want. To where no one can find. Run away with me. Seo Eun Gi. — Ma-Roo

Humans are excellent liars. — Cortney S. Warren