Quotes About Self-perception

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

I always felt that people found women more attractive if they were tanned and there are some parts where I'm so pale, I'm blue and see-through.

If I had three pancakes in the morning I'd be like, Oh, I feel a little full, did I eat too much? Maybe I ate too much, I don't feel perfect, what's going on?' It just snowballs.

I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants.

I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.

Outside certain parameters, I don't consider myself that serious a person.

Being British, I don't want to be all paranoid and arrogant and think people are looking at me because, really, I'm nothing.

I hate myself and my face in particular.

I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.

I don't think I'm particularly beautiful at all.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

Once a conceptual identity occupies the place of "self," this is what we think we are "being.

it seems that the conceptual activity that is created to serve the self has become the self.

What is most startling in reading a detailed explanation of what goes on beneath the surface at the age of fifteen is that the same dynamics continue into the twenties, thirties, fifties, seventies, and nineties. We remain trapped in living a pretend life out of an unhealthy concern for what other people think.

Uelskede oplever sig selv som forladt af hele verden. At de forlader sig selv, ved de ikke.

In a world that belongs to God, human beings make too much of themselves as soon as they raise their heads>; in a world that belongs to humans, they repeatedly make too little of themselves.

In a world that belongs to God, human beings make too much of themselves as soon as they raise their heads; in a world that belongs to humans, they repeatedly make too little of themselves.

Kendinizi hasta farzetmeyiniz. Hastal?k, çok defa bu zand?r.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

If you don't think much of yourself, why should I, since you obviously know yourself better than anyone else?

The term disorder of the self is descriptive of a personality disorder because these patients are out of touch with themselves. They identify themselves with a facade, a false defensive self that they have developed to adapt to a world that they perceive as hostile.

One of my lifelong regrets is that I was not beautiful, and what is more, that I turned for love to those who could not but reject me.

I'm already a monster!" she shrieked. "No, you're not!" Tom managed to heave himself to his knees. "You're my friend!" he shouted.

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.