Quotes About Self-perception

Oh, great. I'm a doll.

I often thought of myself as a trigger-happy queen bitch

Clearly my stunning beauty has clouded your mind." - Rose Hathaway

I said it on Halloween and meant every word: you are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth. And you don't even know it. You have no clue how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine.

If the same guy's still here, he's not really all that stable either. Actually has the balls to call himself Golden Arrow.

I look and smell,' Aunt Sponge declared, 'as lovely as a rose!

I can't find one place in the teachings of Jesus, or the Bible for that matter, where we are to identity ourselves first and foremost as sinners.

We create these identities around our roles and titles and job descriptions and achievements. They give our lives shape and form and meaning and definition. Ever so gradually over time our understanding of ourselves gets shaped by what we do and what we've done. We cling, we grasp, we hold tightly to these identities.

Conclusion: who you are, and what you think you are, is a creation edited and orchestrated by your brain.

It only takes a few weeks in prison to become "a convict," whatever your definition of yourself was before, it only takes a few weeks in the Army to become a "soldier.

It was 10:45. Across the continent Susan would be putting on her makeup now, and spraying some perfume on herself and making sure her hair was perfect. I looked at my reflection in the window. My hair wasn't perfect. Neither was I.

And here, all along, she'd thought of herself as being so calm, so cool, so composed.

The third point is that some of our efforts to treat psychopaths may be misplaced. The term treatment implies that there is something to treat: illness, subjective distress, maladaprive behaviors, and so forth. But, as far as we can determine, psychopaths are perfectly happy with themselves, and they see no need for treatment, at least in the traditional sense of the term.

The shift of self-perception is the most powerful ingredient in the chain reaction of becoming the person you are always becoming.

If a person is measured by the regard they're shown by others, then maybe I'm not a person after all.

Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.

Pero la gente por lo general tiene una idea muy equivocada de sí misma. Creen que viven en función de lo que desean, cuando en el fondo lo que los guía es aquello que temen. Aquello que no desean.

They made her aware of her own lowliness, her plain looks, her lack of aspirations, her ignorance of so many things.

All her life, Parwana had made sure to avoid standing in front of a mirror with her sister [...] But in public, every stranger's eye was a mirror. There was no escape

They say no such things," his wife replied. "No one thinks you are a coward." "I can hear them," he said. "It is your own voice you are hearing, husband," she said.

Ivy could have been a model. Hell, Ivy could be anything she wanted. Except happy. Ivy had issues.

You aren't kidding. But you know, it's likely going to be the only time I'll ever be that skinny and have a fur coat.

This is the first time I've really looked at my reflection in months. To the Lykae [Bowen], she said, No wonder you love me. Could I be any cuter?

Regin: "I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do.