Mind may make business relationship; Heart does make personal relationship; Beautiful soul only makes sustainable and happy relationship. The choice is all ours.

Over the years, I learned to smile or laugh when I was supposed to. I kept my true self hidden; I did not need to unleash my pain on the world around me. Instead, I...

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

I don’t want to pretend like I’m some intellectual person who understands Flannery O’Connor.

I don’t pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I’ll win.

What is more important – Pretending to live OR living your life? Forget about what others think about you and your way of living. Live your life the way you like it.

I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.

I pretend he doesn’t exist, and he does the same with me.

On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted;...

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be …

Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or wealth or both make largely others jealous and envious of...

He’d have denied it to his dying breath but Derwent wasn’t as tough as he pretended to be. For the very small number of people he cared about, Derwent would give his all. It made...

There are things that make no sense,that seem unreal,that can’t be grasped or understoodor explained,that maybe don’t even exist…And still, somehow, those wonderful things touch and change our lives.Isn’t it strange?

I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it was not there.

I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest...

It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.

His character would be blamed, loathed, discussed, and adored – but somewhere there, behind his mask of a hero, Cardew would remain faceless.Anonymous.

Be not who you’re not

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

I can’t even pretend to play golf.

The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.

How crazy it would be if the moon did spin and the earth stood still and the sun went dim!How absolutely ludicrous if snakes could walk and kids could fly and mimes did talk!How silly...

There’s a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

I don’t pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.

On the way home Mary Lou said, “Some things are so sad you can’t say them.” But I pretended not to hear.

I can be anything – and nothing, and everything at the same time. It all depends on the role I am in.

Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is always some natural emotion which dominates them. Perhaps, having given this young man...

Deciding denial was the better part of valor, CK pretended nothing was out of the ordinary.

When you’re threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don’t pretend that you didn’t get hurt – hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

It’s easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don’t think about.

I know you’re a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven’s sake pretend you’re not for five minutes.

Reality and fantasy are not two separate spheres but one whole. They are like a world’s atmosphere―reality behaving as a low front, fantasy a high front. Each remains somewhat distinguishable and yet they swirl and...

To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off.

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.