Quotes About Self-perception

The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection?

Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers.

I've looked for an image in someone else's mirror, and so have avoided seeing myself.

We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.

Your self-esteem and emotional strength relies solely onhow you think and how you see things around you.

I walk, talk and act like a king even though I know there's no royalty in my bloodline

It doesn't matter what other people think of you. What really matters is what you think of yourself.

You become what you think, not what others think of you.

People will have their opinions of you, but you must be able to distinguish theirs from yours.

Success is not about how others feel about you, its about how you feel about yourself.

Feel Superior but Act Inferior

In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.

I worried that Harold would someday get a new prescription for his glasses and he'd put them on one morning, look me up and down, and say, Why, gosh, you aren't the girl I thought you were, are you?

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...

I looked at myself in the mirror and didn't like what I saw.

We are each the love of someone's life --- The Confessions of Max Tivoli

When you were a little girl, madam," he said, gesturing to her, "was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?

Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes—they're not part of the good picture you want.

Skinny girls have skinny minds

Vera had a stab of recognition which made her stop in her tracks. For a moment, the woman, overweight, aggressive, seen reflected in the shop window, looked very much like her.

His eyes had the ebb of his liver in them and he bore the air of a man who looks right at you and only sees the last of himself.

He who forms his opinion of himself in solitude, without knowing the powers of other men, is very liable to error. - On Alexander Pope

I have just received my uncle's Letter. And, after his charge upon me of Vanity and Pride, will my parade, as above, stand me in any stead? — I must trust to it. Only one word to my dear and everhonoured uncle — Don't you, Sir, impute to me a belief of the truth of those extravagant compliments made by men professing Love to me; and I will not wish you to think me one bit the wiser, the handsomer, the better for them, than I was before.