Quotes About Self-perception

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.

I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.

y no hay nada peor que matarse, hacer el ridículo y, para colmo, no enterarse de que uno lo ha hecho.

Only an idiot believes he can write the truth about himself.

A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Her handwriting was curious — small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Stripped of her calculated clothes and the careful camouflage of her make-up she was tired, unalluring, middle-aged. And that was something she would never admit to herself, for most of the illusion of beauty is the conviction of beauty.

I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.

My experience of my body was her experience once removed, which meant my body was dissolved, and that's all I'd ever really wanted from my body, such as it was.

a Hungarian girl with a completely unjustified belief in her own genius.

Everyone always says, 'Don't you want to see the baby, don't you want to see the baby,' but if I did want to see a fat, bald, confused person, obviously I'd have only to look in the mirror.

There's a whole world of people out here whose experiences are not being reflected in the media that they're reading. And that does affect the way we view ourselves... and the people we think we can be.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

One thing a narcissist doesn't like is to look in a mirror that is in any way genuinely reflective of what's on the other side of it.

I have always considered myself of the reforming centre-left.

I never finished looking at Twitter happier than when I've started looking at Twitter. And it's not because of abuse or anything. Even just refreshing what people are saying about you, I don't think is a healthy way to kind of perceive yourself.

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work.

I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.

I certainly don't feel like I have the perfect body type... It's through your own eyes. And for every female, you're going to see flaws in that; you're going to see flaws regardless. So for me, it's just important to have that confidence and self-esteem no matter what body type you have.

Regardless of what is on the Internet, I'm actually only 29 years old - and holding.

I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.