Quotes About Self-perception

I have a great smile. A lot of people don't know that.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else's opinion that we do not look happy.

Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.

If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with.

She had not expected, out in the world, to find herself quite so much the wrong sort of person.

Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there.

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener.

I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me.

REFUSALWhen you refuseto tell your weightand age, people knowyou're fat and old.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.-Jack Nicholson

He didn't remember ever being less weird than he was right now. In fact, as far as he could tell he had always been more or less exactly as weird as this. if not more so.

What if there's no such thing as PMS, and this is just my personality?

Maybe in fairytales you're only as old as you feel, but here in L. A. you're every second as old as your pores.

He who thinks he's the best is not the best... And the one who thinks "he who thinks he's the best is not the best" is also not the best.

Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.