A Quote by Jodi Picoult

Lie to yourself until it's true. — © Jodi Picoult
Lie to yourself until it's true.

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If you believe something enough, it comes true eventually, and that's so true even with lies. If you tell yourself a lie, after a few years you'll think it's true.
To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.
I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true
Stay true to yourself because at the end of the day you can't lie to yourself.
You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.
You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
It's important that you don't lie to yourself. If you lie to yourself, you end up with burnout.
True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.
It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie
There is no sense talking about "being true to yourself" until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It takes hard work to differentiate the voices of the unconscious.
One of the things that I learned is that you never truly know yourself until you challenge yourself. It is when you are confronted with challenges that you see what you are really made of, what is important to you and what your true aspirations are...sometimes you think that you really know yourself, and then you find out that you really don't.
Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true. And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.
Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.
The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification of that lie, which comes from the true God and which reopens channels of communication mankind itself had closed through self-imprisonment in its own violent cultures.
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