Quotes About Self-perception

Women do not know how to separate the soul from the body.

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

Vampire doesn't see his image. Even less in the holy water. (Vampire ne voit son image. - Encore moins dans l'eau bénite.)

Don't judge me by a little thing like this. In little things, I am a little thing myself — I always was. But in great things, I hope not; I don't mean to boast, but I hope not!

kahr?mdam ölecekmi?im gibi geliyordu da, ne zamandan beri kahroldu?umu, bu duyguyu haftan?n hangi gününde alg?lad???m?, dahas? bunu alg?layan?n ben, kendim olup olmad???n? do?ru dürüst kestiremiyordum bile.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

It may be that most men do not care how they look, so long as they do not look ridiculous, and their conception of looking ridiculous is that they should look different from anybody else.

Yet of course nationalism is always "imagined"; identity is what you think you are.

Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'

I was just an average bloke. It was the media that tried to transform me into a heroic figure. But I've learned through the years, as long as you don't believe all that rubbish about yourself, you can't come to too much harm.' - Sir Edmund Hillary

If you have to tell people you're important," Evan said, "then you're not important.

No one, certainly no teenager, was normal or felt they were. Everyone wore a kind of mask that kept people from really seeing what - or who - was inside

What?" EiLeen flinched. "I am not cute.

She sniffed her armpit discreetly and ran a hand through her hair.

He had finally got money, he had taken off his moustache, he was driving a car that few could afford, he was a new man. But the world failed to recognise him as such.

I'm not really beautiful,' she said to herself, 'but tonight I feel beautiful. And I look like a girl who feels beautiful.' (84)

Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.

look again into your heart. See that you're more beautiful than you ever were before!

No matter what your thoughts are they are not crazy so long as they are not crazy to you!

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that they see you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.

Sometimes I forget how country my accent is... Until I hear a recording of myself and I literally sound like cornbread.

Another thing I think about names is that they DO hurt. They hurt because we believe them. We think they are telling us something true about ourselves, something other people can see even if we don't. —Bobby Goodspeed

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description