Honestly is the best policy, which is true. Season liars will have problems covering their lies as time goes on, this is because they will have to invent new lies every now and then to cover old lies, and eventually all the lies don’t tally with each other. With friends like this, who needs enemies? This is why you should remove negative and toxic people from your life, starting with Facebook and a simple message on Facebook, let them know, life is better without them.
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You will love their previous article on How to Catch Cheating Spouse and Track Employee with Smartphone Anti-Theft Software. Without further ado, here are the 20 quotes and one of my favorite quote by Oscar Wilde – Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Do they love you or the mask you put on everyday? – Shimika Bowers
We understand how dangerous a mask can be. They all become what they pretend to be. – Patrick Rothfuss
We all wear masks, and the time comes when they cannot remove them without removing some of their own skin. – André Berthiaume
Nothing is more real than the masks they make to show each other who they are. – Christopher Barzak
Like icebergs, people normally expose only a small part of themselves, and generally just the part they wish to show. – Nikki
People seldom change. Only their masks do. It is only their perception of them and the perception they have of themselves that actually change. – Shannon L. Alder
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. – Oscar Wilde
Without wearing any mask they are conscious of, they have a special face for each friend. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. – Victor Hugo
The question to ask about the writer isn’t ‘Why does he behave so badly?’ but ‘What does he gain by wearing this mask? – Philip Roth
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
You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it. – Alan Moore
He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending wearing masks and losing themselves in the process. – Nicholas Sparks
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie. – Banksy
I learned in high school, if I hold up an effigy, a mask, or a lie, that mask will get all the love, not me. – Lynn Breedlove
I lie without a mask, thus I am an honest man. – Lionel Suggs
Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story. – Marty Rubin
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask. – Agatha Christie
If you want people to love you for who you are, take the mask off. – Quetzal
Love has a powerful way of removing the mask they all insist on wearing. – Jessy
The world is full of monsters with friendly faces and angels full of scars.
No matter how much a snake sheds skin, it’s still a snake.
Many people would be scared if they saw in the mirror not their faces, but their character.
The Japanese say you have three faces. The first face, you show to the world. The second face, you show to your close friends and family. The third face, you never show anyone. It is the truest reflection of who you are.
The Art of Being Yourself: Caroline McHugh
Source: ZenPencil
We are all actors and we all eventually become what we pretend to be.
Nice quote, thanks for sharing. Now we have 21 quotes :)
Be yourself, others might not like you, and you might not like yourself, but you are not wearing a mask.
Its always a fight to save oneself’s own skin. People always try to wear socially approved masks to be socially accepted, but behind it all; it’s self deprivisation taking toll!
I agree…
Some wear masks to hide pain as well. Those who have walked in darkness….☮️
Which is the lie? The mask, or my face?
-Jhin, the Virtuoso
Reality lies beneath the mask you wear.
Masks only cover the reality of who you really are temporarily . In time you will be revealed.
Sometimes its better to put on a mask; atleast people will love the mask than you.
I wish I never lost this poem a person gave it to me the. Poem was long. It was called. I wear a mask. And they got this poem at a. A. A. Meeting. It was beautiful. Of all the masks a person wears of laughter of pain of saddness of happiness of love. The poem was about everything in life a person may feel and the mask they wear behind addictions.
I realize this page is old but I’m hoping someone will see this. Did you ever find the poem? I ask because I’m a member of A.A.
Sherry Irwin and Klozer. The “I Wear A Mask” poem recited by AA can be found here:
Please Hear What I’m Not Saying – Charles C. Finn September 1966
Don’t be fooled by me. Don’t be fooled by the face I wear
For I wear a mask, a thousand masks,
Masks that I’m afraid to take off and none of them is me.
Pretending is an art that’s second nature with me,
But don’t be fooled – for God’s sake don’t be fooled.
I give you the impression that I’m secure,
That all is sunny and unruffled with me, within as well as without,
That confidence is my name and coolness my game,
That the water’s calm and I’m in command and that I need no one,
But don’t believe me.
My surface may seem smooth but my surface is my mask,
Ever-varying and ever-concealing.
Beneath lies no complacence.
Beneath lies confusion and fear and aloneness.
But I hide this. I don’t want anybody to know it.
I panic at the thought of my weakness exposed.
That’s why I frantically create a mask to hide behind,
A nonchalant sophisticated facade, to help me pretend,
To shield me from the glance that knows.
But such a glance is precisely my salvation, my only hope and I know it.
That is, if it’s followed by acceptance, if it’s followed by love.
It’s the only thing that can liberate me from myself,
From my own self-built prison walls,
From the barriers I so painstakingly erect.
It’s the only thing that will assure me of what I can’t assure myself,
That I’m really worth something.
But I don’t tell you this. I don’t dare to, I’m afraid to.
I’m afraid your glance will not be followed by acceptance,
Will not be followed by love.
I’m afraid you’ll think less of me,
That you’ll laugh, and your laugh would kill me.
I’m afraid that deep-down I’m nothing
And that you will see this and reject me.
So I play my game, my desperate pretending game,
With a facade of assurance without and a trembling child within.
So begins the glittering but empty parade of masks,
And my life becomes a front.
I idly chatter to you in the suave tones of surface talk.
I tell you everything that’s really nothing,
And nothing of what’s everything of what’s crying within me.
So when I’m going through my routine do not be fooled by what I’m saying.
Please listen carefully and try to hear what I’m not saying,
what I’d like to be able to say, what for survival I need to say,
but what I can’t say.
I don’t like hiding.
I don’t like playing superficial phony games.
I want to stop playing them.
I want to be genuine and spontaneous and me
But you’ve got to help me.
You’ve got to hold out your hand even when that’s the last thing I seem to want.
Only you can wipe away from my eyes the blank stare of the breathing dead.
Only you can call me into aliveness.
Each time you’re kind and gentle and encouraging,
Each time you try to understand because you really care,
My heart begins to grow wings – very small wings,
Very feeble wings, but wings!
With your power to touch me into feeling you can breathe life into me.
I want you to know that.
I want you to know how important you are to me,
How you can be a creator – an honest-to-God creator
Of the person that is me if you choose to.
You alone can break down the wall behind which I tremble,
You alone can remove my mask,
You alone can release me from my shadow-world of panic,
From my lonely prison – if you choose to.
Please choose to.
Do not pass me by. It will not be easy for you.
A long conviction of worthlessness builds strong walls.
The nearer you approach to me the blinder I may strike back.
It’s irrational, but despite what the books say about man, often I am irrational.
I fight against the very thing I cry out for.
But I am told that love is stronger than strong walls
And in this lies my hope.
Please try to beat down those walls with firm hands but gentle hands
For a child is very sensitive.
Who am I, you may wonder?
I am someone you know very well.
For I am every man you meet
And I am every woman you meet.
Nowadays given opportunity to eyes because voice is under mask ?
BEHIND EVERY LIGHT THERE IS A DARK
&
BEHIND THAT A UNTOLD STORY
You are under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
In other words, wear as many masks as you like, as often as you like
Our sweetest songs are those that come from the saddest stories.
You might want to read The trilogy 1 I came by Walter celan. It has a section called the mask of personality ! It’s Very very very good !