Once you start lying, you get kind of comfortable. You start believing it. Especially if you truly believe you didn't really cheat because you were doing what everybody else was doing.
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If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
It's much easier to cheat than it is to be loyal. Everyone goes through down times. You just don't put yourself in those situations, you know?
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.
In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.
I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.
I lie, I cheat, and I steal.
Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.
I'm trusting. I don't assume people lie to me.
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