Carl Honore Quotes

I'm an old guy. I don't hustle and I don't bustle. So sometimes you're behind, but that's okay. Your peace of mind is more important. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age. They could have enjoyed life.

Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one.

My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

Your personal life is something that's gonna last forever, and your career in stage, film, television, whatever, is not necessarily going to do that, so to keep the two separate's a very good thing.

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.

My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.

Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.

My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.

I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

We want to raise the art of living well.

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows.