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Quotes About Self-image

The one thing I got right was that I already looked like a punk when punk arrived.
~ John Cooper Clarke
Cosmetic surgery - it's boring and expensive, and the only thing it could do is give me another face.
~ Niki Lauda
You've got to have positives and negatives about you. I think that's a good negative, that the only thing they could say about me is my size.
~ Aaron Donald
I'm very specific about what I put out on social media about myself. But that's also why I like social media: because it feels like the only thing that I have to control my own image.
~ Lily-Rose Depp
The only thing I don't have is hips.
~ Estelle
The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen.
~ Patti Smith
That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.
~ Karl Pilkington
The problem with Instagram is people aren't portraying their real selves.
~ Vogue Williams
The problem with cosmetic surgery is that people who have it can only see how they look in the mirror. They don't realise how weird they look from other angles. I particularly hate the injections that puff out the face, which are hideous.
~ Jerry Hall
I'd like to not have to worry about image, about doing the right thing all the time. Not that I want to be a criminal or anything. I'd like to be able to do something wrong and not feel the whole world will know.
~ Tevin Campbell
You look pretty, Abby. Beautiful, in fact." "Thanks. I look full-term and I'm not even close." "You look perfect. Healthy and strong and very pregnant." He grinned at her. "You feel okay?" "Sure," she said. "Fine.
~ Robyn Carr
I'll fix you up. Let me take it a lot shorter, give you a chance to catch up over here. I promise, it won't be awful. You'd look good with shorter hair." "Yeah, that's what the Marine Corps thought. They thought I was cute as a button as a jarhead. Anything you do is fine. I appreciate it." "You
~ Robyn Carr
There. You see? You're just figuring it out now, but I discovered a long time ago that the smarter you are, the more tempting it is to just let people imagine you. We move through each other's lives like ghosts, leaving behind haunting memories of people who never existed. The popular jock. The mysterious new girl. But we're the ones who choose, in the end, how people see us. And I'd rather be misremembered. Please, Ezra, misremember me.
~ Robyn Schneider
But we're the ones who choose, in the end, how people see us.
~ Robyn Schneider
People seldom live up to their baby pictures.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
This visualisation is about self-image and self-esteem. Focusing on who the person is can help in the therapeutic process. Sharing it with others can make it even more positive. If you are using this visualisation in a group, consider getting willing members of the group to share with the others who they are.
~ Roger Day
When we can't make sense of the way we are being treated, we wind up distorting our view of ourselves and our relationships.
~ Rokelle Lerner
He was suddenly overcome with hatred for his own face, for its flat, hard tightness, the narrow lips, the pale, cold eyes, the deadness. Overkill, he thought. That's what was showing on his face. Overkill. Shambles. You try hard, too hard, to get rid of that juvenile romantic in you and what happens then? You succeed, that's what happens. And it shows forever on your face. It turns to stone.
~ Romain Gary
During all those years, you know, in the maquis, I was always asking myself whether it was for liberty, for France, that I was risking my life, or whether it was simply to keep up my self-image. Give me a whiskey, will you? I sat down. — Anyhow, I am not going to change that image.
~ Romain Gary
Es genügt ja nicht, Macht und Reichtum zu erlangen; die Menschen wollen tugendhaft erscheinen und sich tugendhaft fühlen.
~ Ronald Syme
In the infinity of life where I am, All is perfect, whole and complete, I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack, I now choose to begin to see myself As the Universe sees me --- perfect, whole, and complete.
~ Louise Hay
When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.
~ Lucy Grealy
Los únicos momentos en los que siento que estoy envejeciendo son cuando miro las fotografías de las revistas. Los héroes y las heroínas me están pareciendo demasiado jóvenes.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It's no matter that this dye doesn't fool you. My lady, you don't dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.
~ Luigi Pirandello