Quotes About Self-perception

And if you can't see anything beautiful about yourself/ get a better mirror/look a little closer/stare a little long.

Sometimes it seems my identity's a matter of opinion

Some people do have faces like that. Though I've been told mine is one, and I disagree. I have never wanted to punch myself in the

The way you think about yourself will become the way you see yourself, whether it's true or false. Eventually, you'll believe what you tell yourself. If you tell yourself negative, distorted statements about yourself, you will act in negative, destructive ways. If you replace the lies with the truth about who you really are, then you will begin to walk, talk, and live like the child of God you already are.

She's, like, really, really beautiful, but I don't think she sees that when she looks in the mirror.

Second, if you are one of those rare women who is a size 2 and convinced you're fat, be careful. You're probably delusional.

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

Where do you go to get anorexia?

The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."

I have a tough time judging myself.

As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow, we're identical!" "I dunno though, I think I'm still better looking," said Fred, examining his reflection in the kettle.

Did you listen to that tape? It makes me sound terrible.

This is my body, and I am terrified of the space it takes up.

I'm short, I'm thin, I'm not rich. I would say my career choice is in fourth place in limiting my effectiveness as a single adult." (It's possible that it helped. Within a year, he would be married.)

At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification.

but how was I terrified, when I viewed myself in a transparent pool! At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification.

Mostly, Stevie forgot she had a body, and when someone else noticed her body, it made her look down and go, huh. Would you look at that. How long has that been there?

Shame is like melting. You can actually feel your muscles sag and drop, as if your body is preparing you to crawl, or possibly ooze, to the nearest exit.

One cancels the other, and yet without one, the other is incomplete. In the first photograph, standing there in our black robes and scarves, we are as we had been shaped by someone else's dreams. In the second, we appear as we imagined ourselves. In neither could we feel completely at home.