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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.

    Lying   Way   Lied  
    John Banville (2011). “Shroud”, p.12, Pan Macmillan
  • 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.

    Love   Life   Respect  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The less time you spend with Truth, the easier it is to believe lies.

    Lying   Believe   Easier  
  • 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.

    Hurt   Pain   Lying  
    Byron Katie (2007). “Question Your Thinking, Change The World”, p.177, Hay House, Inc
  • The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

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

    David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • 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 (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    “My harsh lesson in love and life” by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.
  • There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

    Twitter post from Jun 17, 2011
  • 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.

    Lying   Artist   Thinking  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I've been living a lie all my life.

  • I would like to be remembered not as anyone unique or special, but as part of a great team in this country that has struggled for many years, for decades and even centuries. The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.

    Country   Lying   Team  
    "Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid icon and father of modern South Africa, dies" by Faith Karimi, www.cnn.com. December 5, 2013.
  • If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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

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

    Art   Lying   Eye  
    Song: Together, Album: Under My Skin, 2004
  • 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.

  • 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 (2010). “Eon”, p.154, Penguin
  • A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

    Trust   Travel   Truth  
  • 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.

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

    Truth   Honesty   Lying  
  • 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.

    Honesty   Lying   Heart  
  • 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 (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.25, Zed Books
  • All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

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

    Lying   Giving   Use  
  • 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.

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