Quotes About Self-perception

We think we need to be able to trust, just as we think we need to be able to be loved. But we have it backwards. As adults, we don't need to be loved. The only real emotional need, if we want to call it that, is to love. To love is our essence; it is who we are.

Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty.

When I was all doodied up maybe a bit better than interesting. But never lovely, which implied more natural grace than I'd ever had and bone structure that was less strong.

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

Por primera vez podía verme a mí mismo como a otro.

Comment ai-je pu laisser les apparences dicter ma vie à ce point-là? On dit souvent qu'« il faut sauver les apparencez ». Moi je dis qu'il faut les assassiner car c'est le sen moyen d'être sauvé. »

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

Faith had always told herself that she was not like other ladies. But neither, it seemed, were other ladies.

All her life, Neverfell had suffered the dull, embarrassed ache of the knowledge that she was always the maddest person in the room. Funnily enough, the realization that this was probably no longer the case did not make her feel better at all.

She had always known that she was rated less than Howard, the treasured son. Now, however, she knew that she was ranked somewhere below "miscellaneous cuttings.

He loved the idea that he was mentally ill," said his daughter Monica, "and hated the idea he was an alcoholic"—that is, bipolar disorder was a bona fide illness, while alcoholism smacked of a shameful personal failing.

Some of us have lived with those voices for so long that they sound like the truth. They sound like our own voice. They may even sound like God's voice. But they're not. God's voice speaks words of acceptance. Words that give. Words that restore. THE WORD THAT ACCEPTS The night before Jesus died, he gathered with his closest friends and followers in a borrowed banquet room in Jerusalem. There, in the

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

It is rather a mark of vanity not to dress well. The sloven thinks that nature has done enough for him.

You," Win would tell him, "have a hero complex. You think you can make the world better. You are Don Quixote tilting at windmills." "And you?" "I'm eye candy for the ladies." Win.

I'm no different from any other woman, and the wrong man would turn me into a screamin' shrew in record time.

Las personas que están en sus cabales no se enorgullecen de sus talentos

It's never an insult to be called what someone thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.

Your name's longer'n you are.

I'm not so weird to me.

My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.

I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.