Quotes About Self-perception

Must a name mean something? Alice asked doubtfully. Of course it must, Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.

Nunca te imagines que eres de otra manera distinta de como a los demás les pareces, que lo que fueras o pudieras haber sido no es más distinto de lo que tú habrías sido si a los demás les hubieras parecido distinta.

Be what you would seem to be'—or, if you'd like it put more simply—'Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

I'm afraid I can't explain myself. Because I am not myself, you see?

Evie didn't mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.

The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either.

I don't know how to accomplish such a look. I find myself with a new fear: that I shall never, ever be this lovely.

Even Evie believed in something, that something being Evie a lot of the time.

Nobody wants to be themselves. That's why there's TV. So you know what to want and who to be.

Next I know, I'll be calling myself the queen of Romania and wandering down the lane wearing my bed linens for a cape.

A Evie le daba igual que le gritaran, pero odiaba sentirse juzgada. La irritaba, y hacía que se sintiera pequeña, fea y sin arreglo.

Creen que me conocen, pero no es así.

Dr. Purchase, the closest likeness to a flesh-and-blood Walter Mitty Logan had ever met

C'mon! Anything over eight inches is strictly for show-and-tell. It's there, but you can't use it. It might look good in a locker room, but let's face it—those extra two inches are leftovers." "Leftovers," Luna gasped, holding her stomach and shrieking with laughter. "Let's hear it for l-leftovers!

If you believe you are a problem, sooner or later you will begin to act like one. Likewise, if you believe you are not intrinsically a problem but a solution, you will begin to act like one.

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

You define beauty for yourself, society doesn't define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

There's no beauty that you could perceive or create if it were not already within you.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

We are what we pretend to be.

The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.