Quotes About Self-perception

People sometimes sweetly say that I have "child-bearing hips," but what they really mean is that I have hips that will definitely knock over your drink if you are sitting next to me on a plane and I have to get up to use the bathroom.

One of the great things about women's magazines is that they accept that drinking water and sitting quietly will make your breasts huge and lips plump up to the size of two bratwursts. Maybe

I've never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic comedies because I want to wear beautiful dresses and have people think I'm pretty and that I get the guy.

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle?

She looked at me for a long time and then pulled an old envelope out of the trash and drew a pear on it. "This is how your body is shaped. See? Teeny tiny on top and not so tiny on the bottom." Then she explained the illusion created by wearing dark colors on the bottom and bright colors on top. When I see other women with this color combination I check to see if they're a pear too and they always are—two pears can't fool each other.

My skin is soft and smooth and the color reminds me of rain-drenched earth. But it's as if the darkness of it keeps Ma from noticing my assets: curly hair, a round face that makes babies smile, deep dimples in both cheeks, big eyes that notice details other people miss. I like my face, even if Ma doesn't. I resemble Baba, and he's got presence.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

It was a split [between the way I was saw myself…and the way I was expected to behave] that brought up to date the age-old dualism between body and soul, virgin and whore. (Haskell xiii)

He carried himself like a guy who lived in his whole body. Like every molecule was under his control. I lived in exactly 12% of my body. I wasn't even sure what my hair was doing.

My name is Ty. Short for Wyatt. Wyatt Svenson. People just always call me Ty.

Il gît, terrassé par ce qui transporte les autres, tellement éloigné de lui-même qu'il prend pour du désespoir ce qui n'est que de l'extase.

Nobody truly knows me, but I suppose that's the way it is for everyone. Or at least I hope so. We seem to have the tendency to put on a front in the best interests of ourselves, but eventually these fronts weld themselves to us until we no longer recognize our own soul in the mirror.

Resist the temptation to think of yourself as useless. It will only lead to depression.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are

Leadership is a state of mind, not the position you have found yourself in. Look inside and not outside.

I don't really see myself as famous.

She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.

Everyone wears the uniform of how he sees himself or how he disguises himself.

You're calling Illium a pretty boy?" Elena snorted, glad to focus on something other than the heavy cloud of death that hung over the city. "Have you looked in a mirror lately?" "I have scars, like any respectable male.

I married beneath me. All women do.

My vigor, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

knowing full well that I looked like something any self-respecting cat would refuse to drag in.

It is a funny thing how much more proud people can be of themselves if they never step back and take a good look in the glass.

want to wear scarlet velvet and slippers and lace gloves and ride in a stage instead of wearing calluses on my hands driving a team like a man. It is not her fault. She is right. The Lord looks on the inside, although people look on the outside. That man is measuring cloth