Quotes About Self-image

If you persist in identifying with current or prior performance by constantly thinking and talking about it, then where you have been, where you are, and where you are going will all be one and the same

Los espejos, como muchas personas, tienen respuestas distintas para las mismas preguntas, según los casos. [...] Ella era la misma, pero el espejo no. Y era éste quien le hablaba, como si dijera: " Estás muy mejorada desde la última vez que te vi.

MATTIE FAE: I'm still very sexy, thank you very much. VIOLET: You're about as sexy as a wet cardboard box, Mattie Fae, you and me both. Don't kid yourself.

A lot of men tend to want "models" I tell men, unless they look like a model themselves, they can't expect to land one.

obsession with beauty (longing for beauty / fear of aging).

All my life I have desperately wanted an ugly necklace.

Much energy goes into looking good and shoring up any holes that may appear in that image. This is where the pain starts, in the tremendous distance between idealistic expectations and actual performance.

How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.

Because they don't want to seem vulnerable. Humans have a lot of this attitude called 'pride,' which is sort of like the satisfaction you get when your machine performs correctly. Pride makes them act contrary to the way they really feel.

I never wanted to be Mickey Rourke. I don't think he did either.

the sacrifice of health and well-being to corporate-denominated images of bodily appearance.

She Knows three things: (a) that men are less treacherous than women; (b) that they never notice what a woman is wearing because they're always mentally undressing her, (c) that as long as you've got breasts,thighs,buttocks and belly in good trim, you can conquer the world.

I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces, and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent and self confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were. Please don't let that happen to you.

Y es que el invierno, la estación más desnuda del año, revela las carencias y pesares de un país que creyó haber superado la fonola tercermundista, un país narciso que se mira la nariz en los espejos de los edificios, un país que se piensa modelo de triunfo, y al menor desastre, al menor descuido, la indomable naturaleza manda guarda abajo el encatrado del éxito.

The culture is littered with female body parts, with clothes and posturing that purportedly express sexual confidence. But who cares how "proud" you are of your body's appearance if you don't enjoy its responses?

In Tibetan there are several words for mind, but two that are particularly helpful to know are sem and rikpa. Sem is what we experience as discursive thoughts, a stream of chatter that's always reinforcing an image of ourselves. Rikpa literally means "intelligence" or "brightness.

Lookin at herself, but wishing she was someone else because the body of the doll that don't look like hers at all. So she straps it on, she sucks it in, she throws it up and gives a grin.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?

The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.

Almost half of the people over 40 believe they look younger than they are. This says something important about older Americans. We have terrible eyesight.

She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.

The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people, the less impressive or attractive you felt inside -- you were a fraud. And the more of a fraud you felt like, the harder you tried to convey an impressive or likable image of yourself so that other people wouldn't find out what a hollow, fraudulent person you really were.

I balked at trying antidepressants, I just couldn't see myself taking pills to try to be less of a fraud.