Quotes About Self-perception

You have the white knight syndrome in spades," she murmured. "Don't kid yourself, baby, there's nothing white knight about me.

I've often wondered why there should be some people who want everything about me to be false or masculine, or what my critics would say if I suddenly appeared with close-cropped hair, no makeup and in men's clothing. I strongly suspect that, too, would leave them unsatisfied.

Through the doctor's eyes, I see myself as a chemical reaction, and as you know, chemical formulas are definite and lead to definite conclusions.

It made him feel like a mom, ineffectual and sexless.

Eragon, sólo estás lisiado si tú mismo lo consideras así.

No olvides, Eragon, que nadie se ve a sí mismo como un villano y son pocos los que toman decisiones sabiendo que se equivocan.

El aspecto que tengo no cambia quién soy.

You are only a cripple if you consider yourself one. You must remain optimistic for a negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury.

When an entire group of people come together and try to make some kind of identity out of what they don't have, they usually end up convincing themselves they can do whatever they damn well please.

Hepimiz kar??m?zdakinin bizi anlamas?n? isteriz ama, ayna gibi içimiz d???m?z görünsün istemeyiz.

She thinks she is white,' they used to sneer, and that was as bad as a curse.

Hey, I'm a computer geek, not a hero. ~Jack Farley

I never realized my ugliness till now. When I compared myself with you, I pity myself indeed, poor unhappy monster that I am! I must seem to you like some awful beast, eh? You,-you are a sunbeam, a drop of dew, a bird's song! As for me, I am something frightful, neither man nor beast,- a nondescript object, more hard, shapeless, and more trodden under foot than a pebble!

Creyéndose bella, conocía muy bien, aunque de un modo vago, que tenía un arma. Las mujeres juegan con su belleza como los niños con un cuchillo, y se hieren.

Ah, Elsa. You got a wrong picture of yourself." "Even if that is true, what does a person do about it? The things your parents say and the things your husband doesn't say become a mirror, don't they? You see yourself as they see you, and no mater how far you come, you bring that mirror with you." "Break it", Jean said. "How?" "With a gosh dang rock." Jean leaned forward. "I'm a mirror too, Elsa. You remember that.

Even if that is true, what does a person do about it? The things your parents say and the things your husband doesn't say become a mirror, don't they? You see yourself as they see you, and no matter how far you come, you bring that mirror with you." "Break it," Jean said. "How?" "With a gosh dang rock." Jean leaned forward. "I'm a mirror, too, Elsa. You remember that.

As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their faces to become as fiery and as leaden as they make them with the red and the paint they besmear themselves with, they would consider themselves the most wretched creatures on earth.

Yes I am shorter than people report but with my heals on I am about 5 foot 6, so that is probably where they are getting it from.

I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not.

No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.