Quotes About Self-image

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

I'm not a sex symbol.

It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.

I still don't buy the idea that I'm a 'sex symbol.'

I can't be described as a sex symbol; I think it's ridiculous.

On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.

I didn't want to be a sex symbol. That was perhaps my mistake, but you can't really change who you are.

I'm not a sex symbol, at least in the conventional sense.

I'm a sex symbol.

I felt like I was in the wrong body, especially when you're considered a sex symbol.

Well, I guess this sex symbol stuff is a nice compliment, but I don't walk around thinking of myself as a sex symbol.

I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary.

Now it's as if buying a new phone is like winning some kind of contest. I felt as if I were in a bidding war for the color I wanted, not that I actually care, because I'll get a case to prevent the thing from shattering the first time it falls out of my bra strap.

It seems absurd for a man of twenty-eight to renounce the pleasures of life, doing violence to his nature by a pure act of will. An untold number had done this before him for religious reasons, but Kafka had based his renunciation on nothing but a self-image. He claimed that for better or worse he was what he was, and that therefore much was out of the question for him

Man becomes what he thinks about

Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can.

Then it's time to build a new belief. What would you like to believe? If you build a belief that you, like every other human being, are entitled to be happy, and are entitled to make friends, that will be much more useful. You still have to have a reference structure. You have to look at yourself and see yourself the way you'd be if you had grown up with this useful belief.

We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.

The God-image, the self-image, and the world-image are deeply connected. Normally, when one of them changes, the other two have to readjust. So, when our God-image changes, then we have to change. When our world-image is adjusted, we are confused or even depressed for a while.