Quotes About Self-perception

I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.

The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside from that, I like nothing. My head is too small.

Everybody has been told already that they're too shy, too aggressive, too emotional, too reserved. They know what their fatal flaw is. They know the one thing to do to get better. But they just don't commit to changing because they feel a little bit in love with it, a little bit in love with the way they've been.

The problem with cosmetic surgery is that people who have it can only see how they look in the mirror. They don't realise how weird they look from other angles. I particularly hate the injections that puff out the face, which are hideous.

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.

I told my psychiatrist, "Doc, I keep thinking I'm a dog." He told me to get off his couch.

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.

Why is my skull covered with hair? To make it look like my genitals?

You may not be what you think you are, but what you think, you are. Jim Clark

Every human being gets much of his sense of his own reality out of what others say to him and think about him.

Je fus encore une fois surprise par la vue de mon visage dans la glace: il n'avait rien à voir avec mes décombres. Ce n'était pas un visage de vaincu. Marqué par la fatigue, mais au fond des yeux il restait encore quelque chose. Je ne dis pas : quelque chose d'invincible. Et pourtant, peut-être y a-t-il invincibilité. Les hommes oublient toujours que ce qu'ils vivent n'est pas mortel.

I don't like people who mistake their private neurosis for a philosophical outlook.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

A man of principles," Jesse said. "People say that about themselves when really they only want to make you unhappy.

Businessmen all think of themselves as big or little professional wizards, but in practice they usually turn out to be hopeless incompetents.

I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to accept the fact that I was ugly, and that to feel despair about it was simply wrong.

Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

It is humiliating to have to appear like an empty tube which is simply inflated by a mind.

Mi si fissò invece il pensiero ch'io non ero per gli altri quel che finora , dentro di me, m'ero figurato d'essere.

The thought, rather, remained firmly planted, that I was not for others what up to then I had inwardly pictured myself as being.

Destined to die without issue," added Terry, who fancied himself a wordsmith. His real name was Something the Third. As if that wasn't bad enough, "the Third" translated to "Tertius" in Latin. Then "Tertius" shortened to "Terry." So obviously that was what they called him. He kept a private journal in which his feelings were recorded, possibly. The possibility was widely mocked.

He felt locked into Lane's version of him. Disposable. Occupying a space, a slot in the world, for no good reason. And therefore, in the end—after years of what he took to be closeness—not even worth a goodbye. He must be less than no one. Because no one, at least, contained possibility.