Quotes About Self-image

If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it's condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don't have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old.

Sabes quién eres por dentro, pero la gente, desde afuera, ve algo distinto. Puedes elegir entre convertirte en la imagen y dejar que desaparezca quién tú eres, o continuar como eres y sentirte falso cuando representas la imagen.

I don't look in mirrors anymore. It's cheaper than surgery.

Those touched-up images were not what her mirrors had been telling her for some time.

Clinging to one's outward appearance interferes with living.

Why did one have to put up a hue and cry about anything so trifling as the skin on one's face, which, after all, was only a small part of the human capsule? ... While such a situation would be understandable in a pimply adolescent who lives in visions, it was ridiculous for me, the section head of a respectable laboratory, moored securely to this world by an anchor-like weight, to be afflicted by psychological hives.

Every inch of me had been cut, filed, steamed, exfoliated, polished, painted, or moisturized. I didn't look a thing like Opal Mehta. Opal Mehta didn't own five pairs of shoes so expensive they could have been traded in for a small sailboat. She didn't wear makeup or Manolo Blahniks or Chanel sunglasses or Habitual jeans or La Perla bras. She never owned enough cashmere to make her concerned for the future of the Kazakhstani mountain goat population. I was turning into someone else.

I liked my feet and my legs and I liked how I walked into a room, expecting to find people who would be glad to see me.

Change back to your ugly self before I change your face for you," Logan said, Silver Frost.

Whether we forget something we are not proud of, or embellish it, or blame somebody else, we want to save face by not owning up to shortcomings.

In the feudal fiefdom of school, rank was determined early. You could change your hair and clothes. You could, having learned your lesson, not write a paper on Julius Caesar entirely in iambic pentameter or you could not tell anyone if you did. You could switch to contact lenses, compensate for your braininess by not doing your homework. Every boy in school could grow twelve inches. The sun could go fucking nova. And you'd still be the same grotesque you'd always been.

Just because I'd spent the last five years of my life dealing with diapers and dirty dishes didn't mean my brain had turned into Gerber Oatmeal & Banana Cereal.

The world stops for you when you're pretty. That's why women spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they're the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they're attractive. Their jokes are funnier. Their lives are better.

When I was younger I wanted to be a caricaturist. In the end, I've become a caricature.

It's always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn't think he already is.

No man is cheaper than he who accepted that he's cheap to continue his cheap action.

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.

What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan?

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

Man is that guy ripped. I mean, I've got the washboard stomach, too. It's just that mine has about two months of laundry on top of it.

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

I think that they haven't been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.