Quotes About Self-perception

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. There is no big man who has not felt small. Some men never feel small; but these are the few men who are.

The vain man does not think he is vain.

My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?' He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you. But he said, 'Because I feel sorry for you.' 'Why?' 'Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.

My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh it's what you look like.'

When somebody dies thinking you are someone you haven't been in years—someone you maybe never were to begin with—what parts of your identity, real and constructed, do the dead take with them?

si te dijera a cuántas mujeres maravillosas, lindas, sanas, tengo yo que consolar porque sienten que ya perdieron todos los derechos tan sólo porque cumplieron cuarenta. Todo está en la cabeza. Son las ideas las que nos acaban mucho antes de que se acabe el cuerpo.

El problema para mí no es lo que se piensa de las mujeres, sino lo que nosotras hemos aceptado pensar de nosotras mismas. Nos hemos dejado culpabilizar por ser mujeres, hemos dejado que nos convenzan de que nuestras mejores cualidades son una debilidad. Lo que tenemos que hacer es demostrar cómo esa manera de ser y actuar femenina puede cambiar no solo este país, sino el mundo entero

Every dog in their home feels like a lion, until a real lion walks in." Giovanni Gambino

The Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect.

Your problem is that you should like yourself better." Of course, he was right—but how could she like herself when she felt she had no self ?

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

What you genuinely think and believe you are, you are.

Age 14. — ...inwardly, we're much older than other girls our age. Even though I'm only fourteen... I feel I'm more of a person than a child...

If you really want to be depressed, weigh yourself in grams.

Illusions about yourself and the world are one. That is why all forgiveness is a gift to yourself.

He alone rated himself beyond diamonds and rubies

and I didn't know if I was proud or indignant that he hadn't noticed.

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.

If you think of them as dirty, then they will be dirty- they will be dirty because you will be giving nothing

he died because, at the bottom of his heart, he really believed what white people said about him. This is one of the reasons that he became so holy.

Perhaps I did not succumb to ideology, as you put it, because I have never seen myself as a spokesman. I am a witness. In the church in which I was raised you were supposed to bear witness to the truth. Now, later on, you wonder what in the world the truth is, but you do know what a lie is.

You're sweet, funnyface," he sometimes said, "but, you know, you aren't really very bright." She was scarcely at all mollified by his adding. "Thank heaven. I hate bright women.