#tend

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually. ↗

— Al Stewart

#face #must #pretend #whoever #you

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#community #integrity #otherwise #preserve #right

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#ask #attend #because #become #cravings

Falling in love was easy-when romantic attraction was combined with hungry, unsated desire, they formed a glamorous, glittering bauble as fragile as it was alluring, a bauble that could shatter as soon as it was grasped. Tenderness was a different story. It had staying power and the promise of a future. ↗

— Robyn Donald

#poetry #tenderness #romantic

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#pretend #being

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#pretending #think

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 out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#listening #pretending #acting

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#affection #come #do you know #give #home

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#heart #pretend #broken

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#healing #heart #imaginary-friend #imagination #inspirational