Quotes About Self-perception

It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.

It's my personal theory that only 27 percent of perceived confidence is actual confidence, and the rest is sham. The key is: If you can't tell the difference, there is no difference.

Staring at herself in the mirror, she found that she'd lost the ability to see herself through her own eyes. She was only what humans would see. Not a girl or a woman or someone in between. They wouldn't see her loneliness or fear or courage, let alone her humanity. They would see only obscenity. Calamity.

It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such »

He can't see it. It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry "Monster!" and looked behind him.

It is a condition of monsters that they do not see themselves as such.

It is the condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such.

Who would one rather be? The one who desires, or the object of desire? One's answer to this question might determine if he is meant to be a poet or something else entirely.

Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.

Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace

You must stop this," he said. "You will make yourself unworthy by considering yourself unworthy. We become what we are afraid we will be.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.

Tus labios son demasiado delgados, eres demasiado alto, y tu pelo realmente es más parduzco, no dorado. ¡Tus ojos son pequeños y eres bizco!

Hadn't I wanted to be known like that? Seen from the inside, lit from within

Part of the rediscovery process is figuring out what you think about the person looking back at you in the mirror.

It made me feel unsalvageable, as though I had been born unlikable and had no hope for being any other way now.

Not that Bella wasn't pretty. Grace thought she was. But she wasn't thin.

Don't you ever feel like you're just a story someone is telling about someone like you?

Women are programmed to think they're the only screw-up in the universe and men are programmed to think they're the smartest creatures in the universe.

Racial self-hatred is seeing yourself the way the whites see you, which turns you into your own worst

Racial self-hatred is seeing yourself the way the whites see you, which turns you into your own worst enemy.

Everyone back the fuck up! I am not that pretty!

I looked at her. She wore a very tight and tiny two-piece orange bathing swimsuit that inadequately covered the overplump body I'd been using as a forget-yourself machine.