Think beyond the situation, its a facade against your success.
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.
A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.
The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.
First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.
Behind the facade of elected government are a bunch of corporate controlled gangsters running the country.
I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.
HONEY: (Apologetically, holding up her brandy bottle) I peel labels.GEORGE: We all peel labels, sweetie; and when you get through the skin, all three layers, through the muscle, slosh aside the organs...
my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesadde...
Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?
The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.