Quotes About Self-perception

we imagine ourselves as the other person will see us, mirroring our own desire in them, and most of what we do is borrowed from a vocabulary of familiar images.

Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that's your body.

Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.

Love is a mirror. In it you see nothing except your reflection. You see nothing except your real face.

You can be the most beautiful woman in the world and see yourself as hideous. You must love yourself. To look in the mirror and tell yourself that you're a rock star.

If Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.

There he adjusted his hat with care, and regarded himself very seriously, very sternly, from various angles, like a man invited to paint his own portrait for the Uffizi.

Why would I want to get depressed by watching TV? I could do that just by stepping on the scale every morning.

Not being shaved gives me the feeling I'm some sort of plant and I keep involuntarily feeling my chin.

Jeder Mensch erfindet sich früher oder später eine Geschichte, die er für sein Leben hält, [...] oder eine ganze Reihe von Geschichten [...].

Mrs. Cullinan was right about one thing. My name wasn't Mary.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

And you look beautiful without it, but I want you to feel just as beautiful as I see you.

We can change what people see when they look at us by what we believe about ourselves.

You have several significant flaws, including that once you are convinced you are capable of one thing of a certain scale, you are equally convinced you can handle more. You do not allow for their cumulative effects upon you. You are doing what you can.

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

I can't believe that I changed so little. I expected to look old and hollow and gray, but I guess it's only me on the inside that has shriveled and deteriorated.

Every civilized man or woman has, I suppose, some picture of himself or herself, and is annoyed when anything happens that seems to spoil this picture. The best cure is to have not only one picture, but a whole gallery, and to select the one appropriate to the incident in question. If some of the portraits are a trifle laughable, so much the better; it is not wise to see oneself all day long as a hero of high tragedy.

God is who He says He is. God can do what He says He can do. I am who God says I am.

I don't think I have a reputation to live up to and that I need to do things to satisfy that.

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.