pretending

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ac3bd32	A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.	dreams healing heart imaginary-friend imagination inspirational pretending richelle richelle-goodrich soothing soul strength	Richelle E. Goodrich
3e3560c	Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.	emma-watson inspirational love pretending	Emma Watson
ae0a77a	Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.	act acting actor actors adage adages animal animals aphorism aphorisms audacity axiom axioms balls be-yourself boldness brave bravery cojones conform conforming conformity courage courageous courageousness daring dead death deep dictum dictums die epigram epigrams facade façades fear fearful fearlessness fit-in fitting-in fruit fruits gallantry gnome gnomes grit guts hardihood heroism herself himself human human-being human-beings humans humor humour insightful inspiration inspirational inspire inspired intrepidity kill killed lemon lemons made-me-think make-you-think maxim maxims motivated motivational motive moxie murder murdered nerve nonconformity oneself orange people peoples person persons plant plants pluck pluckiness pretend pretender pretenders pretending produce profound proverb proverbs provoke-thought quotation quotations quote quotes satire satirical saying sayings self spunk standing-out standout themselves thought-provoking thoughtful tree trees true-grit valour words-to-live-by yourself	Mokokoma Mokhonoana
948be75	Children are very wise intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.	intuition intuitive kids love pretending youth	V.C. Andrews
f39fc94	I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.	believing otma pretending romanovs russia russian-revolution tsar-nicholas-ii war	Sarah Miller
d14dec9	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 spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.	good-people human-nature hypocrisy pretending roles the-truth	Orson Scott Card
f0cb4b4	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 personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)	compulsive-lying crazy-bitch ego egotistical fantasy liar lie lies out-of-touch-with-reality pretending reality self-righteous smile smiling superiority-complex vain vainity wannabe wannabewriter writer writing	Gillian Flynn
930afe5	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 someone said, Isn't it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn't playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.	childhood children fantasies fantastic fantasy game games playing playing-games pretend pretending reality	Francesca Lia Block
81bd0b2	When I thought about my old friends Linus Lucas and Theo, I realized they were not really criminals either. They were like me. We were just acting out the strangest, tragic little roles, pretending to be criminals in order to get by. We gave very convincing performances.	pretending	Heather O'Neill
ed796bb	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.	death grief mourning pretending survival	Julian Barnes
7928917	maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was	pretending sue-grafton w-is-for-wasted	Sue Grafton
8a5b186	Mostly, it is lies that will destroy a relationship. Deceit is a barrier to intimacy. Andre Chevalier	intimacy lies pretending relationships	Nikki Sex
ed8a09c	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. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn (165)	fear finn hayley knife parents pretending sports	Laurie Halse Anderson

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.

dreams healing heart imaginary-friend imagination inspirational pretending richelle richelle-goodrich soothing soul strength

Richelle E. Goodrich

3e3560c

Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.

emma-watson inspirational love pretending

Emma Watson

ae0a77a

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

act acting actor actors adage adages animal animals aphorism aphorisms audacity axiom axioms balls be-yourself boldness brave bravery cojones conform conforming conformity courage courageous courageousness daring dead death deep dictum dictums die epigram epigrams facade façades fear fearful fearlessness fit-in fitting-in fruit fruits gallantry gnome gnomes grit guts hardihood heroism herself himself human human-being human-beings humans humor humour insightful inspiration inspirational inspire inspired intrepidity kill killed lemon lemons made-me-think make-you-think maxim maxims motivated motivational motive moxie murder murdered nerve nonconformity oneself orange people peoples person persons plant plants pluck pluckiness pretend pretender pretenders pretending produce profound proverb proverbs provoke-thought quotation quotations quote quotes satire satirical saying sayings self spunk standing-out standout themselves thought-provoking thoughtful tree trees true-grit valour words-to-live-by yourself

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

948be75

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

intuition intuitive kids love pretending youth

V.C. Andrews

f39fc94

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

believing otma pretending romanovs russia russian-revolution tsar-nicholas-ii war

Sarah  Miller

d14dec9

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 spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

good-people human-nature hypocrisy pretending roles the-truth

Orson Scott Card

f0cb4b4

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 personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)

compulsive-lying crazy-bitch ego egotistical fantasy liar lie lies out-of-touch-with-reality pretending reality self-righteous smile smiling superiority-complex vain vainity wannabe wannabewriter writer writing

Gillian Flynn

930afe5

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 someone said, Isn't it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn't playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.

childhood children fantasies fantastic fantasy game games playing playing-games pretend pretending reality

Francesca Lia Block

81bd0b2

When I thought about my old friends Linus Lucas and Theo, I realized they were not really criminals either. They were like me. We were just acting out the strangest, tragic little roles, pretending to be criminals in order to get by. We gave very convincing performances.

pretending

Heather O'Neill

ed796bb

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.

death grief mourning pretending survival

Julian Barnes

7928917

maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was

pretending sue-grafton w-is-for-wasted

Sue Grafton

8a5b186

Mostly, it is lies that will destroy a relationship. Deceit is a barrier to intimacy. Andre Chevalier

intimacy lies pretending relationships

Nikki Sex

ed8a09c

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. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn (165)

fear finn hayley knife parents pretending sports

Laurie Halse Anderson