Quotes About Self-perception

I'm still surprised when people tell me I look like a queen.

Imagine a woman who could never see herself as she was seen in the eyes of her loved one.

I am not a learned man. I have read a certain amount, enough to know I know very little. But I have read enough to have some sense that all men think of themselves as heroes, at least heroes of their own lives, and that no man who did evil thought he was doing such.

You would never look at yourself as "evil" no matter what the other fellow thought of what you did. It's in our nature. And that's the great secret of evil. It is never viewed as evil by those who perpetrate the evil.

I had never considered myself beautiful, but I decided that I could change my mind.

He was full of the glossy self-regard of men who shrugged off their importance in a way that only emphasized it.

The ego (one's self-perception) is a very shaky structure, easily undermined by unconscious drives and desires. It is possible to repress those drives for a while and feel like a capable, rational subject, but eventually they will reveal themselves in the form of idiosyncratic behaviour, slips of the tongue, even illnesses. The perception that one can craft an identity by copying that of someone else has created particular problems in today's society.

Inside, the lies you tell become the person you become. On the outside, sun and reality shrink people back to their actual size. In here, people grow into their shadows.

His fame seemed to him a failure of perception on the part of others.

I don't look in mirrors anymore. It's cheaper than surgery.

I don't know what makes people do what they do, or call themselves what they call themselves, only that you have to live someone's life to be the expert.

Be particularly alert to any suggestion that you have become selfish or different.

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but – mainly – to ourselves. Dear

Everything seems to be working. Except me. I'm broken.

A strange thing the face. I never felt anything about it at any given time, but when i found i didn't have one, I felt as if half the world had been torn away from me

If I made nothing of it, then surely no one else would either. ... To accustom others to my face was the best short cut to getting used to it myself.

I liked my feet and my legs and I liked how I walked into a room, expecting to find people who would be glad to see me.

She must not look too proud nor yet too humble, lest people say she is proud of her humility." Excerpt From: Catherine, Called Birdy.

At twenty-two, I had the callowest possible definition of interesting and, by the measure of my own calipers, was far from interesting myself.

It was a truth universally acknowledged that your mother was the only person in the world who could say, "Your hair looks nice," but what you heard was, "Your hair always looks awful except for this one, brief moment in time.

Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relations according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. The products of their brains have got out of their hands. They, the creators, have bowed down before their creations.

It was funny because she thought of herself as a good team player, although sometimes she suspected that no one else on her team did.

It's always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn't think he already is.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.