Quotes About Self-perception

It's hard to be beautiful. You have an obligation to people. You almost become public property. You can lose yourself and get almost mentally disturbed on just the public nature of being beautiful. Don't think I haven't thought about it. You can get completely lost in that whole dumb mess. And anyway who's to say what's beautiful and what's ugly?

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

Television drives me crazy sometimes because everybody is so good-looking, and yet you walk through the aisles of the grocery stores, and nobody looks like that.

we think we are the same person, but we aren't. "People get stuck, thinking they are one kind of person, but they aren't.

Two months after leaving Paris, Lafayette, began calling himself "general" and, rejecting his marquisate

Every human being wakes up each morning and sees the world through the lens of a protagonist.

But while I have never considered myself a very good person, neither can I bring myself to believe that I am spectacularly bad one. Perhaps it's simply impossible to think of oneself in such a way.

L'esprit est son propre lieu et peut faire en lui-même un Paradis de l'Enfer et ainsi de suite

The majority of men could sooner be brought to believe themselves a piece of lava in the moon than to take themselves for a self.

Did you know Socrates said we love whatever we lack? Or think we lack? Socrates? If you feel stupid, you'll fall for someone brainy. If you feel ugly, you'll flip your lid for someone who's easy on the eyes.

Truly evil persons do not recognize their own malevolence. They perceive themselves as generous, good-hearted, friendly sorts, who sometimes have to resort to unpleasant tactics for the general betterment of society. Even the historical monsters seem to have had no second thoughts about the damage they were causing. It was that way with Hitler and Oliver Moresby, just as it was with the Greer Avenue Strangler.

If you think you're attractive, you're always attractive.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Once I asked Miah if he ever forgot he was black. No. I never forget, he said. But sometimes it doesn't matter-like I just am. Then he asked me if I ever forgot I was white. Sometimes, I said. And when you're forgetting, what color are you? No color. Then Miah looked away from me and said, We're different that way.

I think I look like a leopard," she remarked, pulling back to inspect her spotted arms and legs. Then that mischievous smile blossomed over her gorgeous lips. "Want to play connect the dots?

I loved the terrier quality Stuart had. He thought he was such a tough guy.

Don't forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.

try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

People did not know what she knew, that she was not really a woman but a man, often a fat man, but more often, probably, an old man. The fact that she was an old man made it hard for her to be a young woman. It was hard for her to talk to a young man, for instance, though the young man was clearly interested in her. She had to ask herself, Why is this young man flirting with this old man?

But at other times, I sit here reading in the afternoon, a myrtle in my buttonhole, and there are such beautiful passages in the book that I think I have become beautiful myself.

I dislike taking sleeping draughts, they make me feel as if my head is stuffed with wet cotton wool in the morning." "Sometimes I believe it is, for shame, comparing yourself to an ox, you sound like a dairymaid. Josephine, did you sleep well?

Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself.