Quotes About Self-image

She forced herself to sit up primly on the edge of the marble bench, repressing firmly the nausea she felt at its warm pressure, and she smoothed the black linen of her dress across her lap, and tucked in her hair, which had somehow come loose, and crossed her ankles decently, and took her black-edged handkerchief from her bosom and dried her eyes and wiped away the dampness and grime from her face. Now, she thought; I may go mad, but at least I look like a lady.

Technology has become the way Western man perceives progress. But technology itself is a reflection of how we see ourselves. If the negativity is in us, it will appear somewhere in our technology.

And he needed to be able to look at himself in the mirror without having to turn away - he couldn't bear to be less than he hoped he was. It was a virtue and a fault that he would carry with him all his life.

Paule n'en pas à une contradiction près, mais celle-ci agaçait particulièrement Henri : elle le voulait le plus glorieux de tous les hommes, et elle affectait de mépriser la gloire ; c'est qu'elle s'entêtait à se rêver telle qu'il l'avait rêvée, jadis : hautaine, sublime ; et en même temps, bien sûr, elle vivait sur terre, comme tout le monde.

for not only does the woman of fashion project herself into things, she has chosen to make herself a thing.

She's not talking to me. She's talking to the Imaginary Daily Mail Judge, who constantly watches her life and gives it marks out of ten.

I guess that's what happens when you have no Botox, makeup, or fake tan. You have expressions instead.

I've been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life.

It's about thinking that being blonde and slim and perfect will automatically bring you happiness, and then discovering that life is full of as many disappointments as there were before.

When you have a better image of yourself physically, you have a tendency to live your life in a more positive way.

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't.

When our internal reference point is the ego or self-image, we feel cut off from our source, and the uncertainty of events creates fear and doubt.

If you're an actress, you're always on one diet or another - it's a way of life.

You arrange your life based on what "everyone" thinks of you or what you think they think of you, whoever everyone is...

What you think of yourself is what you will become.

Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!

The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.

If you could see your perfect image in the mirror it would remove all your fear.

Indeed, what could be more ludicrous in a vast and glorious universe like this than a human being, on the speck called earth, standing in front of a mirror trying to find significance in his own self-image?

The thing about Botox is that when you've had too much, you then have to fake reactions just to look human--and it's impossible to distinguish real fake reactions from fake fake reactions.

I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat.

The funny thing about having any kind of moustache or beard is it grows on you—in two ways. I mean, it grows on you. It also becomes part of your identity. I've had it for 40 years. I don't think I would recognize the person in the mirror without it.

Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

They met middle-age together-a time when women are necessary to one another-and all the petty but grievous insults of greying hair, crowsfeet, and the loathed encumbrances of unwanted flesh, seemed less sordid when faced and fought (though fought spasmodically and with weak wills) gaily together.