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Quotes About Authenticity

Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise..
~ Lewis Carroll
and the moral of that is —"Be what you would seem to be"— or if you'd like it put more simply —"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
~ Lewis Carroll
If I wasn't real,' Alice said—half-laughing through her tears, it all seemed so ridiculous—'I shouldn't be able to cry.' 'I hope you don't suppose those are real tears?' Tweedledum interrupted in a tone of great contempt.
~ Lewis Carroll
Non credere mai d'essere diversa da quella che appari agli altri di esser o d'esser stata, o che tu possa essere, e l'essere non è altro che l'essere di quell'essere ch'è l'essere dell'essere, e non diversamente.»
~ Lewis Carroll
Habla en francés cuando no te acuerdes de alguna palabra en castellano... acuérdate bien de andar con las puntas de los pies hacia afuera... y no te olvides nunca de quien eres!
~ Lewis Carroll
I am real! said Alice, and began to cry.
~ Lewis Carroll
For the Congregation this new movement involves the danger of learning to think that the Services are done for them; and that their bodily presence is all they need contribute. And, for Clergy and Congregation alike, it involves the danger of regarding these elaborate Services as ends in themselves, and of forgetting that they are simply means, and the very hollowest of mockeries, unless they bear fruit in our lives.
~ Lewis Carroll
Be what you would seem to be'—or, if you'd like it put more simply—'Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
~ Lewis Carroll
Tu intención debía ser mala; si no, lo habrías firmado, como cualquier persona honesta.
~ Lewis Carroll
A st?d mora?: B?d?, kim si? zdajesz, lub, je?li wolisz pro?ciej: Nie my?l sobie, ?e nie jeste? kim? innym ni? mog?oby si? wydawa? innym ?e b?d?c kim jeste? lub mog?aby? by? nie by?aby? kim? innym ni? by?aby? gdyby? wydawa?a im si? kim? innym.
~ Lewis Carroll
Sê o que aparentas», ou, de uma maneira mais simples: «Nunca te imagines diferente do que aparentas aos outros, porque se foste diferente, também eles te imaginariam diferente.
~ Lewis Carroll
Please stop posting movie quotes as if they were from the book. Maybe even read the book for real!
~ Lewis Carroll
Concordo com você - disse a duquesa, — e a moral disso é: Seja o que você parece ser, ou, se preferir a forma simplificada, Jamais imagine ser diferente do que aparentaria ser aos outros do que foi ou poderia ter sido se não fosse o que teria sido se aparentasse ser diferente para eles.
~ Lewis Carroll
I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.
~ Libba Bray
Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.
~ Libba Bray
You've been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it's about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what's real.
~ Libba Bray
Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are
~ Libba Bray
The world is a lie...not you and me.
~ Libba Bray
All the times I say, 'Don't see me'? With you, I wish I had an opposite power: See me. See me, Evie. See all of me. There's a fella who loves you right here. I'm not perfect. I'm a handful. But you know what? So are you. There. Not sugarcoating it.
~ Libba Bray
Taylor clapped three times for attention. Ladies! Ladies! My stars! That's enough. Now. We all know Miss Arkansas's girls are fake, Miss Ohio's easier than making cereal, and Miss Montana's dress is something my blind meemaw would wear to bingo night. - Beauty Queens
~ Libba Bray
What makes a girl a girl? What makes a guy a guy? Do you have to be what they want you to be? Or do you stop and listen to that voice inside you? I know who I am. I'm Petra West. And I'm a girl. You want me to sleep somewhere else, fine. Whatever. But I'm not going to pretend to be somebody I'm not. I've done enough of that.
~ Libba Bray
She was too much—for Zenith, Ohio. She'd tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of expectation. But somehow, she always managed to say or do something outrageous—she'd accept a dare to climb a flagpole, or make a slightly risqué joke, or go riding in cars with boys—and suddenly she was "that awful O'Neill girl" all over again.
~ Libba Bray
Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia
~ Libba Bray
Because I'm not enough, she thought. That was the terrible echo shouting up at her: Fraud, fraud, fraud. She got drunk and talked too much and danced on tables. She had a temper and a sharp tongue, and she often blurted out things she instantly regretted. Worst of all, she suspected that was who she truly was—not so much a bright young thing as a messy young thing.
~ Libba Bray