To boost your Self-Esteem or EGO, do not get into trap of Self-Deception!

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.

If the map doesn't agree with the ground the map is wrong

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.