Quotes About Self-image

Marriage is not only time: it is also, paradoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age. This year for the first time since I was twenty-nine I saw myself through the eyes of others. This year for the first time since I was twenty-nine I realized that my image of myself was of someone significantly younger.

Perhaps the mirror in Sally's dressing room had waved the wrong way and caused her to look larger than she actually was. And perhaps all that skipping had jumbled her brain and affected her ability to separate reality from wishful thinking.

When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

Even though the injury has faded, I still see it the way it was right after the accident: raw and red, a jagged lightning bold splitting the symmetry of my face. In this, I suppose I'm like a girl with an eating disorder, who weighs ninety-eight pounds but sees a fat person staring back at her from the mirror. It isn't even a scar to me, really. It's a map of where my life went wrong.

No job is complete until the selfie is posted.

You know damn well you ain't a bad bi.... You just look bad, bi....

I don't think silicone makes a girl good or bad.

I'm not beautiful, I'm sorry that I disappointed you by not being what you expected.

Cause you got thick legs and a little butt don't mean you thick cause if you got a belly to go with it, you not thick. Its a difference being fat an thick.

The feeling of being fat is honestly very very horrible. It's so uncomfortable!

I swear, I don't mind being fat...Until we reach a mall. Then I wish I was skinny!

Being overweight myself, if there's one thing I can't stand, it's other fat people who let their bellies hang out...

I wonder if all pretty girls ever get tired of being pretty all the time.

Being pretty is a full time job that's why I'm only part time...

I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

Positive self esteem is important because when people experience it, they feel and look good, are effective and productive, and they respond to others and themselves in healthy, positive, growing ways.

You always look as though you think people aren't going to like you--that's your trouble.

Besides," Dara said, "he didn't see me the way other people did.

I have always tried to be all the tings my mother wanted me to be; ever the lady, always polite, never inconsiderate. I run my business the way my mother ran our house - everything just so. In some ways I am my mother - full of life when I'm happy, very cold when I'm angry. People say I look just like her. I'll tell you a secret: every time I pass a mirror, I gasp. I wonder if there's more here than meets the eye." - Karen, thirty-nine.

We thought our reflection in the mirror was who we truly were, when how we saw ourselves and how others saw us was often not the same. Likewise, we often deceived over selves when we thought we saw ourselves most clearly.