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Quotes About Self-perception

Some people would always want to tell us who we are, without even taking time to know us. Let them keep guessing while we keep living.
~ Terry Mark
Remind yourself of who you are and what you can do in spite what others say about you or how others make you feel about yourself. It doesnt matter what they think. What matters is what you think about yourself and how you feel about it.
~ Unknown
It's not who you are that holds you back. It's who you think your not.
~ Unknown
When you spend too much time concentrating on everyone else's perception of you, or who everyone else wants you to be, you eventually forget who you really are. So don't fear the judgments of others; you know in your heart who you are and whats true to you.
~ Unknown
all those individuals who are better at analyzing than at valuing themselves.
~ Marcel Proust
Every time we are assailed by images of women very different from ourselves, unless these images are eliminated by being forgotten or overlaid by others, we can have no peace of mind until we have converted these strangers into something more like us, the self in that respect being similar in its action and reactions to the physical organism, which is incapable of accepting a foreign body within itself without immediately setting to work to digest and assimilate the intruder.
~ Marcel Proust
People think I have so much faith in myself, but I have none. I have no faith in myself, or in what I can do, and yet people think I can do anything I want. That's how I seem, but it's an illusion. It's an act, nothing more.
~ Marcus Sedgwick
I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.
~ Margaret Cho
I catch myself thinking that I'm not physically visible, that whoever I'm talking to is responding to my personality, not my person.
~ Margo Jefferson
I don't know," she said. "I'm not sure you would like me in real life. I'm a lot different there, you know. I don't even look the same." " I don't care if you look like a troll with warts," Sir Leo declared, taking her hand in his. "I love you.
~ Mari Mancusi
I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.
~ Maria Sharapova
He liked to think of himself as fighting trim. At this point though, he was more like pacifist fat. Or at least he felt that way, stuffed to the gills.
~ Unknown
We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.
~ Marilu Henner
As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.
~ Marilyn Manson
The only reason I can't jump in and engage life is that I've told myself I can't. Yet I can't helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could?
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.
~ Leslea Tash, Bird After Bird
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
~ Kate Moss
Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.
~ W. H. Auden
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
~ Doris Lessing
I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.
~ Whitney Houston
One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends and if they seem okay then you're the one.
~ Ann Landers
At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.
~ Twiggy
One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.
~ Ann Landers
The reason I drink is because when I'm sober I think I'm Eddie Fisher.
~ Dean Martin