pretending

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

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.

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 punch. 'I used to pretend, all the time, so I can spot it a mile away. If you're feeling shit, then just say so. I don't need to know the reason, it might be none of my business_' 'I'm feeling shit.

Heroes are hero no matter if everybody is watching them or nobody watching them.

You're like this...this goddess pretending to be human... And I don't know which one I love.

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

Thinking was torment; why not give up thinking, and drift and dream? But the misery of the world, she thought, forces me to think. Or was that a pose? Was she not seeing herself in the becoming attitude of one who points to his bleeding heart? to whom the miseries of the world are misery, when in fact, she thought, I do not love my kind. Again she saw the ruby-splashed pavement, and faces mobbed at the door of a picture palace; apathetic, passive faces; the faces of people drugged by cheap pleasures; who had not even the courage to be themselves, but must dress up, imitate, pretend.

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

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person__ success, or be that person.