Quotes About Self-image

Jeg er ikke sikker på hvorfor, men jeg elsker mat mer enn nesten noe annet. Samme hvor mye jeg spiser, legger jeg aldri på meg. Med ett unntak har jeg veid det samme i årevis.

What you've been living on is an image of Celia Which you made for yourself, to meet your own needs.

Boys worry just as much about their looks as girls do. We only hide it better.

The people of this world make a god for themselves in their own image, and in doing so they make God far, far, far, too small.

But know that how you see yourself doesn't define you. How I see you defines you. How you see yourself only defines your experience in the world.

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

Vanity in a newspaper man is like perfume on a whore; they use it to fend off a dark whiff of themselves.

After looking at myself in the mirror, I looked at Satsuko. I could not believe that we were creatures of the same species. The uglier the face in the mirror, the more extraordinarily beautiful Satsuko seemed. If that ugly face were only uglier, I thought regretfully, Satsuko would look even more beautiful.

Crying all the time had made her more beautiful. Grief will do that sometimes. Not for me. Loretta had left months ago and I still looked like hell.

Wondering aloud, If we were orcs, wouldn't we, at a racial level, imagine ourselves to look like elves?

the squares on your abdomen have been reabsorbed, like tiny islands in a rising sea of lard.

When you're sixteen a body like this is free; when you're forty it's a full-time occupation.

those before-and-after shots of women undergoing the knife and accepting poison to change themselves — the lines on their faces repaved like old roads, their bulbous noses whittled into aristocratic ridges.

I had always felt a foreigner in this made-up Land of Beautiful, and it was a relief to see Extreme Beauty for what it really was: fake, make-believe, insubstantial.

Incredible. Drew, you really are a girl's worst nightmare. I mean, you look great. You have this amazing body and your eyes are such a dreamy blue, but you behave like a total jerk." "I think I liked it better when you were saying how great my eyes are," , Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Your attempt to become a "good person" is an attempt to polish that which is known as ego.

I thought I was going to do some cult, cool, late-night interviewing thing on BBC2. But everyone kept saying: 'No, Michael, you're teatime, you're not cool.'

I don't really like seeing myself on TV doing interviews.

I've been blessed over the years and I want to help guys to feel good about themselves when they're going for job interviews. You walk in for a job interview, you feel good about yourself, you look the part, you get that confidence going.

I was going to a lot of auditions and doing interviews, and afterwards the comments were always about my lips.

Everyone always says that guys are intimidated by me, but I seriously doubt it. I mean, I'm five-foot-nothing!

I find it hard to imagine that anyone could be intimidated by me.

I think sometimes I intimidate people. I've been told that. But I feel I'm the least intimidating person possible.

I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart.