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Quotes About Self-perception

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.
~ Penelope Cruz
If you're not feeling good about you, what you're wearing outside doesn't mean a thing.
~ Leontyne Price
Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.
~ Derek Walcott
I'm a minor player in my own life story.
~ Tony Wilson
Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.
~ Jacob Needleman
Oh yeah, I'm mentally screwed up for life. But I look good.
~ Christopher Titus
You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.
~ Tony Robbins
People mistake their limitations for high standards.
~ Jean Toomer
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
~ Terence McKenna
I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.
~ Jenny Eclair
You don't get to change the story because you feel like it. I'm Éponine; you're Cosette! Don't make me out to be the Cosette!" Her lip curls. "What the fuck are you even talking about?" "Les Mis!" "I
~ Jenny Han
Aku hanya membiarkan orang memercayai apa yang mereka inginkan. Aku tidak berkewajiban menunjukkan diriku pada mereka.
~ Jenny Han
Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.
~ Jerry B. Jenkins
When people are complimented on what they're wearing, they accept as if it was about them. "Nice tie." "Thank you very much!" That's the job of clothes: to get compliments, because it's hard to get them based on human qualities. No matter how nice you are, nobody will say, "Nice person." It's easier to be a bastard and match the colors up.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.
~ Jerzy Kosi?ski
Let's face it, I don't have the body of a 14-year-old anymore. I think the more we try not to have that unrealistic ideal, the happier we'll be.
~ Jessica Alba
It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.
~ Jessica Simpson
When people saw the real me, they wanted me to succeed. It was a fleeting thought, and I wish I had caught it and internalized it. I still thought people expected perfection.
~ Jessica Simpson
A high school teacher once told me that identity is half what we tell ourselves and half what we tell other people about ourselves. But the missing piece he didn't mention—the piece that holds so much weight, especially in the minds of young women and girls—is the stories that other people tell us about ourselves. Those narratives become the ones we shape ourselves into. They're who we are, even if so much of it is a performance. This
~ Jessica Valenti
A high school teacher once told me that identity is half what we tell ourselves and half what we tell other people about ourselves. But the missing piece he didn't mention—the piece that holds so much weight, especially in the minds of young women and girls—is the stories that other people tell us about ourselves.
~ Jessica Valenti
A high school teacher once told me that identity is half what we tell ourselves and half what we tell other people about ourselves. But the missing piece he didn't mention—the piece that holds so much weight, especially in the minds of young women and girls—is the stories that other people tell us about ourselves. Those narratives become the ones we shape ourselves into. They're who we are, even if so much of it is a performance.
~ Jessica Valenti
La maggior parte della gente non si rende nemmeno conto del proprio bisogno di conformismo. Vive nell'illusione di seguire le proprie idee ed inclinazioni, di essere individualista, di aver raggiunto da sé le proprie convinzioni; e si dà il fatto che le sue idee siano le stesse della maggioranza.
~ Erich Fromm
Vai cilv?ks dz?vo no iekšas uz ?ru vai no ?rpuses uz iekšu?
~ Erich Maria Remarque