People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people’s actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another.

Impatience can be very good by helping us not put up with tyranny, but it can distort our view of what is possible and how to bring about change. We have to cultivate patience so that our perception isn't distorted.

Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces And Feelings To Improve Communication And Emotional Life.

MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.

In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be angry with him (or with anyone), that you rationalize his hurtful acts by finding some basis in your own actions for his hurtful behavior; you then feel guilty rather than angry. Put in other terms, you become angry with yourself rather than with the one who hurt you.

The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it.

Most liars can fool most people most of the time.