Never pretend to be something you are not, especially to be accepted. Be loved for who you are, it will be tough at times but worth it.

Living a lie – pretending everything is fine when we areactually discontented – is hard work and, in the long run, even bad for our health. We pay a high pricefor compromising on this honesty...

Don’t pretend to comfort me, my friend. I might also pretend to not let you down.

Everyone is watching you. If you don’t believe it, just pretend to fail and you’ll see many mockers. For this reason, work hard as if you are doing everyone’s business!

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I’m deaf and I try to imagine what it’s like not to be able to hear them. It’s not that bad.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

Whenever someone ‘pretends’ as perfect, never made a mistake, error, sin in his life, I know that he has never been in the field…

I wasn’t into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I’d go to all the rehearsals, and then I’d pretend to be ill...

Don’t ever quit pretending.

A dog might feel as majestic as a lion, might bark as loud as a roar, might have a heart as mighty and brave as a Lion’s heart,But at the end of the day, a...

Never pretend to be who you are not. It doesn’t take long before the truth gets revealed and you’ll be left hurt with the results.

Human has the ability to believe in something wrong as if it is true.

This was a new skill she’d acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don’t pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters. 

To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don’t feel it, you have to pretend.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara

I think it’s counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don’t. You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.

Smell shit when one’s bragging.

I guess it’s better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake...

The steady soul and the ego pretender / walk with their arms round each other’s shoulders / through the mirage.

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

The stories we pretend do not exist, are the stories that will haunt us till the end.

We live through the belief of children…Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.

Betrayal is too kind a word to describe a situation in which a father says he loves his daughter but claims he must teach her about the horrors of the world in order to make...

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.

I am who I pretend to be, and right now I’m pretending to be my own clone.

And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out,...

You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.

In Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream.

Don’t be afraid. You are never really alone. Just be yourself. You don’t ever have to pretend you are someone else. If you try to do that, then you don’t have anything to give the...

Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I’m like that old Peggy Lee song, ‘Is That All There Is?’ I want to believe there’s something else going on, but what that something...

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don’t have one.

I am who I am. I can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.

You stand a better chance of bringing pretend to life through the power of belief than you stand any chance of erasing what’s real by refusing to believe.

I am not who I pretend to be, even when I act like myself.

In this world we are all pretenders, and Society is our game

Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don’t exist.

Let’s pretend for just one moment that could actually happen. You close your eyes and I’ll close mine and let’s dream the same dream across the Atlantic, lighting up the darkness between us. Can you...

I keep everything hidden because there’s nothing about my true self that anyone likes. I’m not difficult, Sebastian. I’m the easiest person around. I don’t belong, and I spend all my time pretending I do....

I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.

We’ve been shattered and reconstructed, told to make an effort every single day to pretend we still function the way we’re supposed to. But it’s a lie, it’s all a lie; every person, place, thing...

Kuamini (mbali na imani, ambayo ni nia ya kujua kisichoweza kujulikana) ni kwa ajili ya vitu usivyoweza kuvielezea. Unaamini kwamba siku moja dawa ya UKIMWI au saratani itapatikana mahali fulani, ilhali huwezi kufanya majaribio ya...

who did I think we were.who did I thinkI could make you.this is the oldest mistake,to confuse wantingwith magic. silence is the undoingof every spell, and we are expertsin the unsaid. even now, I forgetto...

Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?

It’s like pretending to be Santa and then stabbing someone with a candy cane!

Im gonna be a pretender the rest of my life. Pretending i dont wish every girl i kiss isnt you. Pretending i dont wish every girl i sleep with isnt you. Im gonna have to...