Quotes About Self-perception

I have barred myself from thinking I'm improving because thus far I have only been fooling myself. Nevertheless, I think I'm improving.

Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

For it seems to me now that when I read those books and wrote my words, I read and wrote of a man who bore my name but a man whom I hardly know. Strain as I might, I can hardly see him now; and when I glimpse him, he recedes as in a mist, eluding my most searching gaze. I wonder, if he saw me, would he recognize what he has become? Would he recognize the caricature that all men become of themselves? I do not believe that he would.

In the mirror,' she thought, 'he sees something unreal - he sees the opinion of the world, is driven by fear of the world and judges me by the world's standards. But the world isn't real. It has no existence. Mr. Taylor is real - or was until this morning - and I am real, but what is Roddy? He is just a man looking into a mirror watching his own face growing angrier.

Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.

we stand revealed as something our parents are mortified to have created.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

Men want to feel like they are dating a model or celebrity, so look like one!

Social psychologists argue that who we are at any one time depends mostly on the context in which we find ourselves. But who creates the context? The more mindful we are, the more we can create the contexts we are in. When we create the context, we are more likely to be authentic. Mindfulness lets us see things in a new light and believe in the possibility of change.

Your right. We do spend a lot of time worrying about our looks, instead of focusing on what's inside. - Raven The artist has the power to capture that. To express what he thinks about the subject. I thought that was much more romantic then seeing myself in a cold, stark glass reflection. - Alexander

I guess I'd just been thinking about it for so long that I forgot changing your gender was not even a question for most people. They just took for granted being a boy or a girl. I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be so sure of yourself.

She's elegant," Olivia stated. "I would kill to have her figure." "Really?" "Of course. I have always wished to look precisely like her. Though obviously, not enough to avoid food," she added. "That's madness. You have everything she doesn't." Olivia opened her mouth, ready to argue. "Everything she hasn't." She frowned at him. "Including me.

You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?

Mediocrity/inferiority complex is the end result of self-hate i.e. intense dislike/devaluation of oneself/yourself.

How easy it is to believe yourself a god by the heart, and how hard it is to be one by the mind!

Pero ¿no están corriendo las lágrimas por mis mejillas y caen a goterones sobre mi pecho? Me sorprendió. Pensé que el funcionamiento de mi cuerpo se había estropeado. Igual que cuando una está muy borracha y las lágrimas van saliendo, una tras otra, sin parar, por algo que no tiene relación con una misma.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everyone thinks they're an exception to the rules

I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.

The trouble with waking up in the morning is that you look like who you are. That's great if you like who you are – not so great if you don't.

It was always easier to believe the bad stuff people thought about you than the good.

On the one hand, Sylvie loves the feeling of being like everybody else... on the other hand when she feels most like a freak is when shes getting away with not being one.

Let me hasten to add that I am not at all like Jane Eyre, who must have given hope to so many plain women who tell their stories in the first person, nor have I ever thought of myself as being like her.

Me apresuraré a añadir que no me parezco en absoluto a Jane Eyre, que debe de haber hecho concebir esperanzas a tantas mujeres feas que refieren su historia en primera persona...

I never had a man nor a son nor anything. I just call myself Missis to give me a standing.