Quotes About Self-perception

We spend so long trying to be what other people want, that when we look in the mirror, we see a stranger.

We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!

Trying to change the outer is like seeing your unclean or unshaven face in the mirror and trying to shave or clean the mirror.

I'm a bit-part actor in my own life

I am not plain, but I don't think anyone is ever going to call me beautiful. I don't have that graceful thing going on.

I'm still a doughnut, okay?" I said. "I want to be a bun. I really do. But I'm still a doughnut.

You cut yourself off from all sorts of experience because you tell yourself you re not 'that sort of person

We were using FaceTime Audio, which I preferred to us looking at each other's faces as we talked—I got distracted by the way my nose seemed enormous, or what someone was doing behind me. I also didn't want her to see the size of the buttered muffins I was eating.

But I knew very well how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was inside. I

But then I knew better than anyone how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was really inside.

I am not designed to exist in this thing- and yet for all intents and purposes it is now the thing that defines me. It is the only thing that defines me.

Our life is the creation of our mind

la verdad es que nos preocupamos mucho por lo que otros piensan de nosotros. Las únicas personas que se sabe que no tienen un sociómetro son los psicópatas.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."32

What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?

Everybody else needs mirrors to remind themselves who they are. You're no different.

your dress. Too tight.' 'You think so? It looks all right to me.' 'You're only looking at the front, love.

Do I really look so pathetic to all of you? Like I couldn't possibly meet someone on my own? Half the people in the world are women. Odds are that at least a few of them would be willing to go out with me.' 'Damn right,' Phillip chimes in. 'And it's not like he's been celibate since he moved out. He had sex last night, FYI.' 'Don't help me, Phillip.

If there's a perk to having such a fucked up father, it's that he's in no position to judge.