Quotes About Self-image

I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its "problems" because they are part of its identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and feel sorry for myself, and so have an identity as someone who is being treated unfairly by life or other people, fate or God. It gives definition to my self-image, makes me into someone, and that is all that matters to the ego.

Whatever you identify with turns into ego.

It will attempt to ensure its survival by finding something else to identity with, for example, a mental image of yourself as someone who has transcended all interest in material possessions and is therefore superior, is more spiritual than others. There are people who have renounced all possessions but have a bigger ego than some millionaires.

The people in the advertising industry know very well that in order to sell things that people don't really need, they must convince them that those things will add something to how they see themselves or are seen by others; in other words, add something to their sense of self.

When you are seemingly diminished in some way and remain in absolute nonreaction, not just externally but also internally, you realize that nothing real has been diminished, that through becoming less, you become more. When you no longer defend or attempt to strengthen the form of yourself, you step out of identification with form, with mental self-image.

A medida que uno crece, va formándose una imagen mental de sí mismo basada en su condicionamiento personal y cultural. A este yo fantasma lo llamamos ego.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living—

It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry, or hard-done-by person. You

As you grow up, you form a mental image of who you are, based on your personal and cultural conditioning. We may call this phantom self the ego. It consists of mind activity and can only be kept going through constant thinking.

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are.

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

it is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.

refurbished that image of herself in other minds which was her only notion of self-seeing

I can't bear to see myself in my own thoughts—I hate ugliness, you know

Aren't most diets, even when they are ostensibly under the heading of "health," dedicated to impressing others? The desire for the "praise of men" is one of the ways we exalt people above God.

Maybe taking ourselves for somebody else means that we cannot bear to see ourselves as we are.

Siempre se miraba al espejo con los ojos entrecerrados: no le agradaba que un desconocido entrara en su intimidad.

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It was said she mourned her beauty, which people still spoke of as of a vanished champion from another age. She had buried herself alive in public, on

No one ever died of cellulite or wrinkles.

Group membership can modify individuals' perceptions of themselves. Unable to separate their personal introspection from the ways they believe other people perceive them, teenagers may have what psychologists call an "imaginary audience", meaning that they believed that other people are just as attuned to their appearance and behavior as they are.

Students usually don't refer to themselves as nerds until someone else accuses them of being one.

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

There was no way I was going to end up in the scrum when I came to rugby - you know, waste my pretty looks.