Quotes About Self-image

Concordo com você - disse a duquesa, — e a moral disso é: Seja o que você parece ser, ou, se preferir a forma simplificada, Jamais imagine ser diferente do que aparentaria ser aos outros do que foi ou poderia ter sido se não fosse o que teria sido se aparentasse ser diferente para eles.

How can my ankles and arms be obscene?

We're all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they'd like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance.

Does my new feminism make me look fat?

Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia

We're all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they'd like to be seen.

They will drink their tea. Weight their words. Wear hats against the sun. squeeze their minds into corsets, lest some errant thought should escape and ruin the smooth illusion they hold of themselves and the world as they like it.

Dr. Purchase, the closest likeness to a flesh-and-blood Walter Mitty Logan had ever met

If you believe you are a problem, sooner or later you will begin to act like one. Likewise, if you believe you are not intrinsically a problem but a solution, you will begin to act like one.

We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We're more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

This thing in society that you have to be a stick will always be in my mind, but that's just something I have to deal with.

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

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves

When we interact with others the ego manifests. We have to show that we're superior or that we know more, are more spiritual, evolved - or that we're the worst, everyone is better.

Tomorrow when you wake up, be aware of how you dress your thoughts and emotions, because at the end of the day no matter what you look like, if your inner being isn't beautiful, neither are you.

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

She looked up with a certain anxiety. 'But you don't think I'm too plump, do you?' He shook his head.Like so much meat. 'You think I'm all right.' Another nod. 'In every way?' 'Perfect.' he said aloud. And inwardly, 'She thinks of herself that way. She doesn't mind being meat.

For the act of criticizing heightened his sense of importance, made him feel larger.

Ésta es la opinión que tiene de sí misma. No le importa ser como la carne.

Sometimes I look in the mirror and think I'm really good looking. Then other times I think my body's all wrong.

Nobody enjoys being on display, said Isabel. But then she thought: Some do, and so she added, Except actors. And narcissists.

Mr Pilai looked down. "Mma Ramotswe," he said. "Please let me look at you. I have just been given these new spectacles, and I can see the world clearly for the first time in years. Ow! It is a wonderful thing. I had forgotten what it was like to see clearly. And there you are, Mma. You are looking very beautiful, very fat.