Quotes About Self-perception

Tianna gingerly touched her eyes, nose, and lips. She was startlingly beautiful. "Wow," she whispered, and brushed her fingers through her long silky black hair. Not many people ever got to see themselves as a stranger would. There was no prejudice in her vision or modesty imposed from a lifetime of living with her face and body. She could honestly say she was stunning. No wonder the guys were turning their heads, and the girls, too. She was a knockout.

Labels only stick if I let them.

I had allowed to settle into the core of who I am. I talked about myself in ways I would never let another person.

When you feed negativity on the inside, it's negativity that you'll exude on the outside.

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (NLV).

We ain't anything more than a name and some likes and some distastes and a story we tell about ourselves.' 'And what others say about us.' 'If you want them stories heaped in, too, then you're welcome to them. And we're a body; and sometimes the stories and the name, they live on after the body.

Because we ain't anything more than a name and some likes and some distastes and a story we tell about ourselves.

More and more they are relying on their gut—and their feelings—to make decisions. In fact, he said, it really doesn't matter how customers feel about you and your business. What makes a difference is how your products make them feel about themselves and their decisions.

I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

Unless we know the weight of our bodies, unless we feel the force of gravity, we'll forget what we are, we'll lose ourselves without even noticing.

I have aged. When I look in my polished bronze mirror, there are lines upon my face. I am thickened too and my skin has begun growing loose. I cut myself with my herbs and the scars stay. Sometimes I like it. Sometimes I am vain and dissatisfied. But I do not wish myself back. Of course my flesh reaches for the earth. That is where it belongs.

The subtlest of all differences between human beings has to to with their attitude to themselves when they are thinking about themselves. Some caress themselves when they are alone and consciously dote on themselves, whereas others hold themselves apart from themselves with a certain despotic contempt for themselves—and this, too, even in the midst of their liveliest sensations.

She was convinced that women were as often victims of themselves as they were of men.

We had never had a pet—my grandmother thought that people who kept pets were engaged in the basest form of self-mockery, intentionally putting themselves on a level with animals.

He had a body like coat hangers - the perfect body to hang clothes on. Stripped, he had barely a body at all.

When you grow up never being good enough, every day's a compromise between what you want to be -- and what you are.

I am the eggman They are the eggmen! I am the walrus!

The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. / What matter where, if I be still the same...

I'm 100 percent Jewish by blood, but by education I'm nothing. By affiliation I'm nothing.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

I'm neither professional fighter nor physicist, therefore on some level I will always consider myself a failure.

If someone calls you a failure it's more than likely they feel like one.

Complain about being fat. Get depressed. Eat ice cream. Feel happy. Gain 2lbs. Complain about being fat...

Most of us spend our lives impersonating who we think people want us to be and in the process we become imposters.