“If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.”
“The 'as if' principle works. Act 'as if' you were not afraid and you will become courageous, 'as if' you could and you will find you can. Act 'as if' you like a person and you will find a friendship.”
“Act the way you want to be and soon you will be the way you act.”
“So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now.”
“The thing to do was to act just like others acted, live like they lived, and while they were not looking, do what you wanted.”