Quotes About Self-perception

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.

Ever notice folks can justify damned near anything, 'cause they're always the heroes n their own stories?

Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they could attain the importance they long for.

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.

What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.

How many of us allow others to define us and thus we become what they want us to be, not what we should be or could be?

It's not how we feel about someone that makes us love them, Annie, it's how they make us feel about ourselves.

feel like when my mother died, she took with her the Mia I saw when she looked at me. I could never find that girl in my own reflection. To Mom, I was special—bright, powerful, beautiful—her angel. To the rest of the world, I was just a girl. Small for my age, shy, passingly pretty, smart enough. Just Mia.

She was not stunningly beautiful. She could be pretty when she felt like it.

No one thinks you're an idiot. That's just dumb.

he had had some eye work done: a lift to remove the puff and bloat; he would rather look startled and insane than look fifty-six.

I am ashamed. I play a diminshed chord because I am diminished.

I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.

Amy, though the youngest, was a most important person, in her own opinion at least.

As Meg went rustling after, with her long skirts trailing, her earrings tinkling, her curls waving, and her heart beating, she felt as if her fun had really begun at last, for the mirror had plainly told her that she was 'a little beauty

Asema. You're forgetting. A people who see themselves primarily as victims are doomed. And we're not doomed, are we?

You're forgetting. A people who see themselves primarily as victims are doomed. And we're not doomed, are we?

Para ser, tenemos que narrarnos, y en ese cuento de nosotros mismos hay muchísimo cuento: nos mentimos, nos imaginamos, nos engañamos.

Ze truth about stories is that is all we are.' A famous Cherokee writer named Thomas King once said this. We are ze stories we tell ourselves, Benny-boy. We meck ourselves up. We meck each other up, too.

People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves

People do say that now to know oneself is a deception and an imperfection, but often they are unwilling to understand that someone who actually knows himself perceives precisely that he is not capable of anything at all

A man?s mind is never all of one thing, nor does he know himself or all his reasons beneath the masks he wears. They deceive even the wearer.

Many complain of their looks, few of their brains.

there is almost nothing more common than the belief that one is above average in intelligence, wisdom, honesty, etc.