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Quotes About Self-perception

The people at home," I said. "A lot of them call me an apple." "Do they think you're a fruit or something?" he asked. "No, no," I said. "They call me an apple because they think I'm red on the outside and white on the inside." "Ah, so they think you're a traitor
~ Sherman Alexie
Because I have no boobs. My ears stand out, and I have freckles all over me. (Grace) Boobs? (Julian) Breasts. (Grace) You have very nice breasts. (Julian) Thanks. What about you? (Grace) I have no breasts. (Julian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
He knows she's his daughter, twit. (Artemis) Twit? Moi? The Simi? Why, I do believe the bitch-goddess has done gone and gotten herself confused. She thinks she's me, not that I blame her. All women want to be me because of my beautoneousness and the fact that I have such stylish clothing and sparklies. But believe me, I ain't no heifer-goddess. (Simi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
But you're human, aren't you? (Kat) I'm human, except when I first wake up in the morning. Even I don't want to be around myself then. (Kish)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Akri infallible. Well, except for a couple of things, and we don't talk about those 'cause it makes akri cranky. I like that word 'infallible.' It just like me. Infallible. (Simi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm beginning to think my name has been changed to Damn it or Asshole Styxx
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards.
~ Denis Waitley
She doesn't think she's worthy to live. But she doesn't realize, she is life.
~ Derek Raymond
I'm the least sexy person in real life.
~ Dree Hemingway
We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.
~ Ellen Goodman
Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.
~ Erica Jong
Unfortunately the student often feels guilt for not living the type of life that their Teacher suggested, or they feel that they are intrinsically bad and incapable of leading a higher life.
~ Frederick Lenz
All of your life you have been told that God created you. I come now to tell you this: You are creating God.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.
~ Nikki Giovanni
The simple combination of letters and sounds you select as a name for your baby can result in a life of carefree coolness or decades of expensive therapy. Hi, I'm Jake versus Hi, I'm... Tapioca
~ Paul Reiser
In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
~ Rachel Dratch
People only look at me as a Beatle but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.
~ Ringo Starr
All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.
~ Robert Fulghum
All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.
~ Robert Redford
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.
~ Robertson Davies
I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.
~ Kelly Osbourne
I, the lone inhabitant of my body and life, am inescapably large to myself, but also ridiculously, inconceivably small.
~ Maggie Shipstead
Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.
~ Matthew Arnold
I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.
~ Gareth Gates