Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.
Pretend to be weak, so your enemy may grow arrogant.
It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.
There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.
It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.
Everybody isn't your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn't mean they're for you. Just because they say they got got your back, doesn't mean they won't stab you in it. People pretend well. Jealousy sometimes doesn't live far. So know your circle. At the end of the day real situations expose fake people so pay attention.
The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.
Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.
When one is pretending the entire body revolts.
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.
I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.
What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
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