Quotes About Self-perception

He spoke obliviously and happily, believing himself to be a perfect pitch raconteur and public performer, while everyone with him held their breath.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%.

I figured that kind of delightful explosion was reserved for fictional heroines with perfect complexions and no cellulite on their thighs.

What you're telling yourself about yourself is having a powerful effect on your life and your health.

I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.'

Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

Forget about calories — everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.

Muchas veces se me ha ocurrido pensar, Orfeo, que yo no soy, e iba por la calle antojándoseme que los demás no me veían. Y otras veces he fantaseado que no me veían como me veía yo, y que mientras yo me creía ir formalmente, con toda compostura, estaba, sin saberlo, haciendo el payaso, y los demás riéndose y burlándose de mí.

And the reality is that the quality of life does not depend directly on what others think of us or on what we own. The bottom line is, rather, how we feel about ourselves and about what happens to us. To improve life one must improve the quality of experience.

It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.

The only judgment comes from yourself, the sternest judge of all, as you know too well.

I'd thought I'd felt like shit that day, but really I'd barely even entered the intestine.

Etsuko grew silent, utterly transfixed by the realization that how she saw herself was actually how her children saw her, too. They thought she was a monster.

But people will always say things. They will always say terrible things, no matter what. It's normal for me. I'm nobody.

And Mary preserve our mistresses from seeing us as we see ourselves.

Also, chubby people can never truly pull off ethereal the same way skinny people can never be jolly.

Being called fat is not like being called stupid or unfunny, which is the worst thing you could ever say to me.

I have a complicated relationship with my body. ... I thought of it as the vehicle that carried me to and from places my brain wants to go, like my car.

Jocelyn is willowy and half-Asian, and while fitting the bill technically for a model, has no interest in modeling. She's just that cool. Me, on the other hand, whenever I lose, like, five pounds, I basically start considering if I should "try out" modeling.