Quotes About Self-perception

Subestimarse es algo tan alejado de la verdad como exagerar las propias facultades.

No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools; for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

Whereas today people often understate their age to census takers, studies of past censuses have revealed that they used to overstate it.

I felt a sense of shame like a burning ulcer. This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness, there is what I call a mythical norm, which each of us within our hearts knows 'that is not me.

He's a really nice guy, if only I weren't me.

The most I would do was use the shadow tool in Photoshop to bring out the muscular rips in my stomach, which were honestly there. Beneath the fat.

In a way, I am a psychological transsexual, always trying to pass for a normal person but being clocked every time.

My worth depended on where exactly the decimal was placed among the zeroes.

Do you understand that you are exactly attractive enough and thin enough (even if you weight four hundred pounds) and smart enough and funny enough, even if you cannot tell a knock knock joke without fucking it up? You are exactly everything enough to the person who thinks you are

For our face and body were beautiful. Our face was not like the faces of our brothers, for we felt not pity when looking upon it. Our body was not like the bodies of our brothers, for our limbs were straigth and thin and hard and strong. And we thought that we could trust this being who looked upon us from the stream, and that we had nothing to fear with this being.

Sì, tu non mi vuoi. L'ho sempre sentito: facevo finta di non accorgermene, pensavo che fosse solo una mia impressione, o che so io. E invece no. Ti comporti... in modo diverso. Non mi prendi sul serio. E' vero che era solo un sogno, però sognavi me. Mi chiamavi per nome. Mi detestavi. Perché? Perché?

If another man wanted me, I was valuable. I was esteemed, no matter that it wasn't self-esteem.

I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.

I think it was the first time in my life I ever felt like I looked "good". Do you know what I mean? That nice feeling when you look in the mirror, and your hair's right for the first time in your life? I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is.

I am below average!

I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me.

I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.

just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is.

Everyone else new you ever meet, and this continues through life, is stronger than you are, knows the system better and sees right through to the back of your brain and finds what they see to be wholly inadequate. Everyone you encounter carries, as it were, a huge club behind their back, while all you hold behind yours is a weedy cotton-bud.

Life is a dream in which you are the dreamer as well as the dreamed.

Another person's thoughts about you are outside of your jurisdiction

A low self-image is usually not based upon facts