Living A Lie Quotes

• All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

  Havelock Ellis

  Life, Moving On, Letting Go

  Havelock Ellis (1973). “Affirmations”, Milford House Publishing Company

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  There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

  Cornel West

  Lying, Pay, Bigger

  Twitter post from Jun 17, 2011

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• I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

  Lynn Barber

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

  “My harsh lesson in love and life” by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.

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• The less time you spend with Truth, the easier it is to believe lies.

  LeCrae

  Lying, Believe, Easier

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• Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Life, Respect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Living a lie - pretending everything is fine when we are
  actually discontented - is hard work and, in the long run, even bad for our health. We pay a high price
  for compromising on this honesty - and neglecting ourselves. Finding our inner passion, our mission
  in life, and connecting with who we really are, our spiritual being or our higher self - this is the key to success and fulfilment. Our 'soul' purpose is our sole purpose in life.

  Kristiane Backer

  Running, Spiritual, Honesty

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• When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.

  Avril Lavigne

  Art, Lying, Eye

  Song: Together, Album: Under My Skin, 2004

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• Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.

  David Deida

  Lying, Dissatisfaction

  David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

  Alison Goodman

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Alison Goodman (2010). “Eon”, p.154, Penguin

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• A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust, Travel, Truth

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Honesty, Lying, Heart

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• The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Happiness, Lying, Simple

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• If you're not living your truth, you're living a lie.

  Joseph Curiale

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

  Bernard Baruch

  Art, Disappointment, Lying

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• All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

  John Banville

  Lying, Way, Lied

  John Banville (2011). “Shroud”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  Byron Katie

  Hurt, Pain, Lying

  Byron Katie (2007). “Question Your Thinking, Change The World”, p.177, Hay House, Inc

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I've been living a lie all my life.

  Michael Reagan

  Lying

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• The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

  Bernard Baruch

  Encouraging, Meaningful, Courage

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• But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love." "Yet I am living without love." "Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Lying, Feels, Persons

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.25, Zed Books

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• If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in our ability to reestablish the spiritual needs of our lives in personal character and social justice. Without this spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Lying, Character

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• I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth and you're not living a lie. So I'm learning through it, and it's making me a better person, and it's making me a better artist, I think.

  Diane Guerrero

  Lying, Artist, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Lying, Giving, Use

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