Quotes About Self-perception

A veces uno se deja guiar por lo que las personas dicen de sí mismas, y muy a menudo por lo que otras dicen de ellas, sin darse tiempo para deliberar y discernir

had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters

When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous.

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity towhat we would have others think of us.

Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them: and though this was not particularly agreeable to Emma herself, she knew it would be so much less so to her father, that she would not have him really suspect such a circumstance as her not being thought perfect by every body.

I am now, at twenty-seven years old, bright, funny, warm, caring and kind. But of course people don't see that when they look at Jemima Jones. They simply see fat.

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Snow Speaks to the Mirror My nose is smudged, my hair in tangles. I do not like myself at angles. Skin's not clear, eyes all red. Another hour in my bed would be a gift, would feel real nice. But can I trust your strange advice? Don't be daft. I won't be guided by a glass that's so one-sided.

Stephanie Plum]Jeez. No True Love [Grandma Mazur] There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking you had it, or you talked yourself into thinking you didn't need it.

He looked just like himself. Didn't look like he was living in dark alleys. He was clean, fresh shaven. Didn't look hungry. Had on clean clothes. Seemed to be alone. Was a little, um, upset. Said I was a pain in the ass. No! You? A pain in the ass? I can't imagine why anyone would think that.

stuffed myself into a white T-shirt, topped with a plaid flannel shirt and a pair of Levi's with a small hole in the crotch which I convinced myself no one could see.

Think you should stop your whining, she said to Kuntz, on account of it makes you look like a wiener. And with a name like Kuntz you gotta be careful what you look like.

I felt beautiful but also interrupted. I wasn't used to being so complicated.

Men... No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.

There is no God, there is only what you want.

You imagine you can see me, Mother? All you could ever see was your own face in a mirror." "Who am I, Mother? I'm not you. That's why you wish I were dead. You can't shape me anymore.

I was the center of my own universe it was the stars that were moving, rearranging themselves around new, and I liked the way he looked at me l. Who had ever looked at me, who had ever noticed me? If this was evil, let God change my mind.

I wasn't beautiful anymore. Now I looked like what I was, a raw wound.

Men," she said. "No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy." I

I was the center of my own universe, it was the stars that were moving, rearranging themselves around me, and I liked the way he looked at me.

Men," she said. "No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

Maybe you've decided you're not a genius, that you're not brilliant, that you're not prosperous, that you're not wonderful, that you're not lovable. Well, you know what? You're both: you're unlovable and you are lovable. And they both need equal time.

As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.