The truth is we are all a mess! None is perfect and without sin. So, moving forward let’s stop acting like we are since we are not.

I’ve learned to get really good at this – say one thing when I’m thinking about something else, act like I’m listening when I’m not, pretend to be calm and happy when I’m really freaking...

I’ll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

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...

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...

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending… we gotta let ourselves be.

There’s no use of pretending to be good in front of people who are also doing same to us.. Mutual Deceptions don’t lead anywhere !!

She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relentless cheerfulness.

Don’t pretend to be what you’re not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.

As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden...

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

Don’t ever quit pretending.

In a fallacious world where we live; it is much easy to create a God rather than pretending to find one.

Pretending that we live doesn’t make us alive.

Pretending is such a hard game to play sometimes.

That’s such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship....

Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.

Whatever is above will be managed by the powers above you. Don’t live as a man, pretending to be God. Do what you can do; leave what you can’t to God!

We have been pretending for a long time to be limited beings.

Kindness is an extraordinary moment and status even if it has to be pretending.

I’m tired of pretending, tired of acting like everything’s okay, tired of not being with him…

Well…letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.

Throw off your grief,’ doubters imply, ‘and we can all go back to pretending death doesn’t exist, or at least is comfortably far away.

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

You don’t have to pretend with me, you know.’ He reaches out and tucks a strand of my hair behind my ear. His expression is so open and honest I feel it like a sucker...

You can trust bad liars.

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...

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

I never was very good at acting. I never was very good at playing the role. Because the true pretending can only come off in our genuine awareness of the real. Only those of us...

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you...

I have always been afraid… Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am … scared to death just treading on your shadow.

It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If...

There’s a great deal of power in pretending.

pretending to be good might be the same with pretending to be right, its just you are selfish on your own because you think only for yourself..

But there is nothing more beautiful than being desperate.And there is nothing more risky than pretending not to care.

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

It’s a blue album, but it’s not a blues album. I’m not pretending all of a sudden now I’m blues.

Absolutely. No more pretending!

At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman’s wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I dressed the part. Denial and rationalization were two of my most effective tools...

Have you killed a man, drowned a crocodile, hunted a wolf, or raped an abuser? Stop pretending you love someone.

Let us not pretend to be someone else !It is better to be hated for what we are than to be loved for what we are not.

Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It’s much more like when you’re a kid putting on a character.

dear today, i spend all of you pretending i’m okay when i’m not, pretending i’m happy when i’m not, pretending about everything to everyone.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself.But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed...

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.

Children are very wiseintuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.

Life’s a lot different from what people pretend. That’s why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I’m beginning to...

Little did you know, you have to keep pretending to be someone else, while your partner is exhausted from having to put on a daily show just to please you.

I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this … I still love scribbling the word – WRITER – any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write...