Quotes About Self-perception

Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.

In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.

I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.

I see." Charlie brushed nonexistent lint off her jeans. "Because a honey badger family is not nearly as important as a pack or pride or a teddy bear picnic." "I don't think bears call themselves . . . that.

Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron

Relationship Principle 5 Don't believe what anyone tells you about yourself.

Sophia Loren said, "Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

To be thought of as the perfect woman for a man isn't a compliment to a woman, it's more about how a man sees himself—and what he needs.

Inside the house she took off both her hat and her wig—a woman's wig, this time—and sat down in front of the vanity table to massage her scalp. In the mirror she seemed thinner. Was she already down to only one point two chins? Another face appeared in the mirror. "Counting your chins?" "Me? How dare you accuse me of such rampant self-absorption!

Charlotte sat before her vanity, pinning up her hair and counting her chins.

He had always thought of himself as a successful man, although nothing he had ever done had turned out successfully.

If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us, but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

Realisation' means it is an experience. Outside forces cannot make me feel successful. I have to feel it within myself. It is internal not external. That is why what often appears success externally may be total hollowness internally.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

Be careful not to make your mind your biggest enemy.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

Do you remember when you told me I had beautiful knees? I never like my knees. In fact, I thought they were ugly. But your eyes have rehabilitated them. Whether I see you again or not, I'm going to live out my life with these two beautiful knees.

Minusta tuntuu hyvältä nähdä luuni. Pidän siitä että näen ja tunnen ne. Kun minun ja luitteni välillä on liikaa lihaa, tuntuu kuin jotenkin etääntyisin itsestäni. Ymmärrätkö?

I was glib, even witty, or at least that's how I imagined myself.

En mayor o menor medida, todos inventamos nuestro pasado.

Sje?aš se kad si mi rekao da imam lijepa koljena? Nikad mi se nisu svi?ala moja koljena. Zapravo, mislila sam da su ružna. Ali, tvoje su ih o?i rehabilitirale. Bez obzira na to ho?u li te ikad više vidjeti, proživjet ?u svoj život s dva lijepa koljena.