Pretending Quotes

• Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.

  Drake

  Life, Humble, Positivity

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• Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.

  Rick Warren

  Positivity, Coaching, Wearing A Mask

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• 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Change, Meaningful

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 27, 2017

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• Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

  Jim Henson

  Life, Motivational, Believe

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• Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, Reality, People

  Joyce Meyer (2004). “Starting Your Day Right: Devotions for Each Morning of the Year”, Hachette UK

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• Be original, stop pretending to be someone you are not, be your own light in this world.

  Leon Brown

  Beautiful, Light, World

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• Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

  Steve Irwin

  Funny, Betrayal, I Hate You

  "My Steve". Book by Terri Irwin, 2012.

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• 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.

  Henry Miller

  Brother, Liars, Integrity

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• 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.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Graduation, Integrity, Giving

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• 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.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Pretend to be weak, so your enemy may grow arrogant.

  Sun Tzu

  Enemy, Arrogant, May

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• 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.

  Trent Shelton

  Jealousy, Fake Friends, Fake People

  FaceBook post by Trent Shelton from Nov 05, 2013

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• It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

  Caitlin Moran

  Life, Growing Up, Keeping Secrets

  Caitlin Moran (2014). “How to Build a Girl”, p.35, Random House

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• The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.

  John Lennon

  People, Hypocrisy, Smoking

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• It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.

  Adam Levine

  Interesting, Energy, Waste

  Twitter post from Feb 10, 2012

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• Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

  Serj Tankian

  Alive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being is like pretending.

  Mira Sorvino

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• Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Real, Ideas, Tolerance

  Twitter post from Jan 13, 2015

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• When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

  Anais Nin

  Being Yourself, Acceptance, Unique

  "Winter of Artifice". Book by Anais Nin, 1939.

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• One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

  Douglas Coupland

  Real, Caring, Novelists

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Animal, Talking, Fool

  Catherynne M. Valente (2015). “The Boy Who Lost Fairyland”, p.158, Macmillan

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• The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

  Socrates

  Life, Wisdom, Being Yourself

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• The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

  Booth Tarkington

  Fun, Fool, Pretension

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “Alice Adams”, p.247, Booklassic

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• I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hurt, Writing, Soul

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• I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hypocrisy, Wicked, Would Be

  'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) act 2

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