Quotes About Self-perception

Though I knew I'd lost weight and was a bit pale, I never considered myself all that sick. I thought of myself as separate from them because of what I'd gone through, but it didn't occur to me until then that people might actually pity me. The idea appalled me.

How are you going to know who I am, she finally said, if I dont look like me?

If you think you're fine, you'll start to believe it.

I usually avoided looking at my wrist, at my scars, but this time, I focused on them and realized my body was more than something I was trapped in. I saw a strong backbone, a big heart

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask . . . with nothing beneath it?

Go to a goddamn priest if you wanna be lied to. I've seen too many of your kind slip back inside to fool myself. If you wanna think you're a new man, hell, that's fine. But don't think you're looking any different in anyone else's mind.

What you learn is often determined by what you need to know. If you think you're weak, you will learn that you are strong. If you think you are indestructible, you will learn that you are fragile. In the end though, you will learn that you are human. You are no more and no less than all those who are learning their lessons as you learn yours.

And, you'll forgive me for sounding immodest, but i know that i'm good-looking. Throughout my life, both men and women have made their interest in me obvious. But I can't control any of that. It was simply the way I was born. Ultimately, it means nothing. I could have a heart of stone for all they know. I could be a psychopath or a sociopath. Not all monsters look like the Elephant Man, and not everyone who looks like the Elephant Man is a monster.

He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure.

Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth? He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure. He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure.

Her hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.

There's no point in caring what others think about you. Either way they will form a good or bad opinion of you.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

Sometimes I feel like crying JUST because I'm a girl and I wish I was a guy. I dont hate girls but I dont like to be one either.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman.

Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.

To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself.

Nobody forced me to look any way. I just exaggerated what was already there.

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.

I think of myself as an excellent actress with a lot to offer, but I'm not aggressive; I'm not ambitious. In fact, I'm anti-ambitious.

I don't see myself as exotic.

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

I don't see that we're any different than many, many people that are out there. And it's hard to kind of accept something like we're larger than life, super-people or something like that.