Honest Life Quotes

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it. ~ R. Kelly

It's a struggle but you have to keep going. ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

There is no normal. There's only what's right for you and being honest. ~ Jael McHenry

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We forget that just because something is honest it is not necessary the truth. ~ Deb Caletti

Government usually doesn't work. It doesn't work because it is political. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs. The difference between the political process and an honest life is the difference between parading around waving picket signs while hollering catcalls in front of the White House and getting up in the morning to go make a living. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life. ~ Andrea Dworkin

Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun. ~ Criss Jami

... home was not just a cabin in a deep woods that overlooked a placid cove. Home was a state of mind, the peace that came from being who you were and living an honest life. ~ Kristin Hannah

Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life. ~ Shannon L. Alder

We may be poor, but at least we've always been honest."

Something broke inside Han, and when he opened his mouth the words came spilling out. "We're ~ Cinda Williams Chima

Andrei Yefimych is extremely fond of intelligence and honesty, but he lacks character and faith in his right to organize an intelligent and honest life around him. ~ Anton Chekhov

Don't use barbiturates before going on stage. And be honest. ~ Nick Offerman

But one has to ask: why do the big things at such a high cost? I chose the quiet life. I like the idea of being recognized by my field and no one else. This way I have a purpose, one I believe in, but I'm not burdened by the constant idea of putting on a public image, a view of myself the masses can accept. Nobody cares whether I'm fat or cheat on my taxes. It is not the only right kind of life, of course, but it is the honest life for me. What I'm saying is, I make the right choices for myself. ~ Jaroslav Kalfar

You live simple, you train hard, and live an honest life. Then you are free. ~ Eliud Kipchoge

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest. ~ Junius

To live an honest life you have to strive hard, get involved, fight, make mistakes, begin something and give it up, begin again, struggle endlessly, and suffer loss. As for tranquility - it's spiritual baseness. ~ Leo Tolstoy

I think expression is at it's best when it comes from an honest place, so I always try to use my own life experiences, feelings, struggles, frustrations etc. as the catalyst for my song writing. ~ Kate Brown

Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given. ~ Ira Sachs

I prefer to be a sad screwed stupid bitch, than a fucking liar, fake and pretender that has to put different masks per day. ~ Sara Keddar

I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living. But living an honest life - for that you need the truth. ~ Ricky Gervais

So it's 2019. I'm gonna say the right thing to do is for the US to declare bankruptcy (Trump can do it… done it before…), and dismantle the criminal state of Israel as it exists today. Unfortunately, politicians are so full of shit and AIPAC money, and the economy is so addicted to war, and the US population is so fucking stupid... that we'll probably have to go and try to fuck up another two or three countries before moving on to a decent, honest life. ~ Dmitry Dyatlov

...an honest life... is the path of least resistance, the existence that required the least calculation. ~ Jose Sevilla Ho

I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest. ~ Iris Dement

You know, they say that Bill Wilson asked for whiskey as his dying wish. The man was dying, at the end of the line, and he wanted the one vice he'd been fighting all his life. Even the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous wanted whiskey on his deathbed. ~ Kandi Steiner

When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband. ~ Martha Quinn

I AM THE NARRATOR OF MY STORY. I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN WRITE THE NARRATIVE, THE BEGINNING, AND THE END OF THE CHAPTERS IN MY LIFE. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong. ~ Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

[ ... ] they imagine that the life they are obliged to lead is not that for which they are really fitted, and they bring to their regular occupations either a fantastic indifference or a sustained and lofty application, scornful, bitter and conscientious. ~ Marcel Proust

When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison, your story will be boring and uninspired. It's like fugu: The flesh of the pufferfish is extremely tasty, but the roe, the liver, the heart can be lethally toxic. My stories are located in a dark, dangerous part of my consciousness, I feel the poison in my mind, but I can fend off a high dose of it because I have a strong body. When you are young, you are strong; so you can usually conquer the poison even without being in training. But beyond the age of 40 your strength wanes, you can no longer cope with the poison if you lead an unhealthy life. ~ Haruki Murakami

If nothing in life challenges us, we will remain unchallenged by life. ~ Alvin Conway

I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about. ~ Sachin Tendulkar

I'm sorry.'
'For what?'
'For all of it.'
'No need to be. I'm living a life, you know? If people went around apologizing for every bad thing that happened to everyone, we'd be bored out of our fucking skulls. ~ Loretta Nyhan

But the true discipline is to remain committed, throughout the whole of one's life, to waking up from the dream of the self. ~ Sam Harris

For a while, I decided to worship God. It was a God I arrived at through a method of logical deduction. If there is a God, what would he be like? I asked. He would be a real person in my life, I reasoned, adhering to a literally anthropomorphic view of the sacred. He would be beautiful and I would desire him. Since a friend of mine named Trevor had all those attributes, I concluded that Trev was God. Having settled on him, I then further deduced God's other characteristics from Trevor's behaviour. He was narcissistic, perplexed, rather dispassionate, flawed in various ways, etc. So was God. At night I prayed to him by name. My entreaties seemed about as effective as other people's prayers to their Gods. And with Trevor there was the added advantage that if my prayers failed to reach him, I could always phone. ~ Stan Persky

Purpose can be grand and large and visionary, and it can be very small, subtle and simple. Understanding your purpose anchors your awareness to the contribution you make every day. ~ Cynthia Yoder

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. ~ Sophocles

Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages. ~ Richard Paul Evans

You spent so much time explaining yourself, your work to others - what it meant, what you were trying to accomplish, why you had chosen the colors and subject matter and materials and application and technique that you had - that it was a relief to simply be with another person to whom you didn't have to explain anything. ~ Hanya Yanagihara

To make this world a loving place, be loving and kind. ~ Debasish Mridha

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built ... I put the sweat of my life into this thing. ~ Howard Hughes

Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about proportion - it's really a work hard/play hard equation. ~ Danielle LaPorte

Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived. ~ Dean Karnazes

WHEN YOU CANNOT JOKE ABOUT THE DARKNESS OF LIFE, THAT'S WHEN THE DARKNESS TAKES OVER. ~ Amanda Palmer

You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself. ~ Henry Kravis

It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream
a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought
a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities! ~ Mark Twain

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl. ~ Bjork

Natural birth is full of magnificent, life-changing wisdom. ~ Christiane Northrup

God gave these ten laws for our good. He wants us to be our very best and to get the most that is possible our of life. ~ Charles L. Allen

I Might never find that love my heart has always desired, but I know I will succeed before I die. ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Dantes had entered the Chateau d'If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the early
paths of life have been smooth. and who anticipates a future corresponding with his past. This was now all changed. The oval face was lengthened, his smiling mouth had assumed the firm and marked
lines which betoken resolution; his eyebrows were arched beneath a brow furrowed with thought; his eyes were full of melancholy, and from their depths occasionally sparkled gloomy fires of misanthropy and hatred; his complexion, so long kept from the sun, had now that pale color which produces, when the features are encircled with black hair, the aristocratic beauty of the man of the north; the profound learning he had acquired had besides diffused over his features a refined intellectual expression; and he had also acquired, being naturally of a goodly stature, that vigor which a frame possesses which has so long concentrated all its force within itself. ~ Alexandre Dumas

When you've got a thing to say,
Say it! Don't take half a day.
When your tale's got little in it
Crowd the whole thing in a minute!
Life is short
a fleeting vapor
Don't you fill the whole blamed paper
With a tale which, at a pinch,
Could be cornered in an inch!
Boil her down until she simmers,
Polish her until she glimmers. ~ Joel Chandler Harris

on him at the time of his majority, and was more than enough for his needs. He would live his own life, then, far from Melbourne and parents, carve his own kind of niche. But the imminence ~ Colleen McCullough

The best place to find God is not in the temple, but your heart, where kindness and love reside. ~ Debasish Mridha

It begins to dawn on her that she is lackadaisical about other people. They are tremendously important to her for a time and then they are not. She begins to see her life in sections, as separate pockets of time and affiliation. ~ Diane Schoemperlen

Are you aware of who you really are in relationship to the very God who created the Universe, who scattered the stars and aligned the planets? Only to those who remember and realize that they are literally spirit children of a God who knows and loves them, can the fire of refinement be welcome. Otherwise, pain and adversity are just that, pain and adversity. Fire doesn't purify; it only burns. ~ Toni Sorenson

The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life. ~ Carl Jung