Do you lie? Do you know that the focus of lying is never about the lie, but about the person telling it? Things You Need To Know About Lying:
- Lying has nothing to do with the specific lie being told; it has to do with a person’s character.
- Lying is NEVER okay.
- Ask yourself – If you told this person the truth might he make a decision other the one he is making? When your objective is to deceive or withhold information from the other person in some way, you are lying.
- Check out Sisela Bok, 1978, Lying, Moral Choice in Public and Private Life. (Clich here to learn more about lying)
- If you excuse lying sometimes, you will continue to lie.
- Do not excuse lying. You tell yourself you do not want to hurt her feelings, but in the end, you end up hurting her more.
- Sometimes it is difficult to tell another how you are really feeling, but at this point it is merely a communication problem.
- Learn how to be authentic and at the same time take into account another’s feelings.
- When you allow lying in your life, you lose your dignity and self-esteem.
- We ALL know lying is bad, a sign of weak character.
- When you lie, only you know that; and you suffer from a lack of self-esteem and self-respect.
- You cannot have real relationships without dignity and self-esteem.
- Lying creates secrets and secrets isolate people from one another.
- Lying is a betrayal between two people and deprives the person being lied to of making decisions based on the truth.
- We all deserve the right to decide for ourselves what is best for us.
- Without honest and accurate information, we cannot do that.
- Lying destroys love.
- This says it all.
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