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Quotes About Self-image

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
~ Doris Lessing
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
~ Doris Lessing
As long as you cannot bear the notion that there is a creature under heaven who can regard you with an indifferent, an amused or hostile eye, you will probably see to it that you continue to fail with the utmost charm.
~ Dorothea Brande
I had no illusions at all that I was beautiful, pretty or even able to attract the right sort of attention from men
~ Dorothy Koomson
Once young girls used to play with baby dolls, seeing themselves in the role of the nurturing mother; now they can be seen playing with Barbie dolls, seeing themselves in the place of the doll. And of course, the doll is both pretty and stacked. The pressure is on and stays on.
~ Douglas Wilson
Take a look at yourself, the mirrors revealing. If yeen got it, yeen got it the theory is brilliant.
~ Drake
Just because I'm presented life in a certain way doesn't mean I do all these things. It's just something I choose to express.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.
~ Maxwell Maltz
Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Our inner image of ourselves and what we want to accomplish in life makes us become what we were meant to be.
~ Mark Victor Hansen
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
~ Salvador Dali
Big can be beautiful - just not to me. I find you disgusting; freshmen 15 is not a life sentence.
~ Daniel Tosh
You could say that my life's a mess. But, I'm still looking pretty in this dress.
~ Marina and the Diamonds
I got called 'pretty boy' my whole life.
~ Jason Momoa
The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring.
~ John Bradshaw
I used to be a cool chick but I feel like the paparazzi has taken that away from me, like, the way I used to live my life. I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.
~ Britney Spears
He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Avoid fruit and nuts. You are what you eat.
~ Jim Davis
If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.
~ Jim Eason
Though Brandon claimed to be six-six, because that was all the height most people could fathom, he was actually a quarter inch over six-eight-and not a spindly six-eight either, but 232 pounds of meat and bone stacked vertically beneath a lop-sided smile and a defiant wedge of hair that gave him the appearance of an unfinished sculpture. His size always triggered unreasonable expectations.
~ Jim Lynch
You can often outperform what other people think of you, but you will never outperform what you think of yourself.
~ Jim Stovall
She felt her strong young body that she had never appreciated when she had it, constantly worrying that she didn't meet standards of beauty and not understanding how standards of health were so much more important.
~ Jo Walton
Para a gente se transformar em ruim ou em valentão, ah basta se olhar um minutinho no espelho – caprichando de fazer cara de valentia, ou cara de ruindade.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Tú eres guapa A.J., y además inteligente. el problema es que siempre te enamoras de la imagen de un chico, sin preocuparte de cómo es realmente
~ Joan Bauer