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

A broken promise is not a lie.

You were never taught how to talk with your face like you speak with words.

Most liars can fool most people most of the time.

It is our responsibility to learn to become emotionally intelligent. These are skills, they’re not easy, nature didn’t give them to us - we have to learn them.

No important relationship survives if trust is totally lost.

Crucial to how we feel is being aware of how we are feeling in the moment. The sine qua non of that is to realize that you are being emotional in the first place. The earlier you recognize an emotion, the more choice you will have in dealing with it. In Buddhist terms, it's recognizing the spark before the flame. In Western terms, it's trying to increase the gap between impulse and saying or doing something you might regret later.