Quotes About Self-perception

We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you.

It is amazing, what you can make yourself believe, when you have to, Josef says. If you keep telling yourself you are a certain kind of person, eventually you will become that person.

We all have stories we tell ourselves, until we believe them to be true.

I'm at the age where that's a surprise, where I still think I'm going to see a younger woman rather than the one who blinks back at me.

I don't see myself as famous I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.

I feel sorry for you, wishing you were a bad bi... when you're just a sad bi....

You know damn well you ain't a bad bi.... You just look bad, bi....

I may be a really bad person but I'm not aware enough to see that I'm a bad person.

The closest I could come to being depressed nowadays is knowing I'm not being as beautiful as I am, or being convinced to be less than that.

Being mixed race, exotic, long hair or anything, is considered beautiful. While we 'normal' girls are just sitting there like...ok.

I'm not crazy. I prefer the term Mental Psychopath.

I swear, I don't mind being fat...Until we reach a mall. Then I wish I was skinny!

NOT that I am comparing myself to the norm. Maybe it's time I just be okay with being misunderstood.

I wonder if all pretty girls ever get tired of being pretty all the time.

Every little pebble in the stream believes itself to be a precious stone.

Was going to make facebook page but couldn't think of a self-description that wouldn't sound pathetic.

Used to think nothing of myself then I realized I'm what I make myself but I liked it more when I had no feeling of self importance.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

Never let the irrelevant opinion of other people cloud your vision of yourself.