Isobelle Carmody Quotes

The mirror can lie. It doesn’t show you what’s inside.

Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. . .

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.

When you look into a mirror it is not yourself you see, but a kind of apish error posed in fearful symmetry kool uoy nehW rorrim a otni ton si ti ˛ees uoy flesruoy dnik a tub rorre hsipa fo lufraef ni desop yrtemmys

You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

You can't see the world through a mirror.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love.

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

I'm not lying to myself like most people.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves.