306 Quotes About Self-image

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable

Fat-bashing in all its varied forms–criticism, exclusion, shaming, fat talk, self-deprecation, jokes, gossip, bullying–is one of the last acceptable forms of prejudice. From a very young age, before they can walk away or defend themselves, women are taught that they are how they look, not what they do or what they know. (1)

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

Telling yourself you like the way you look is easy. Believing it is an entirely different kettle of whales.

In the story of Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized that he was a Swan. Each of us has something Special, a swan of some sort, hidden inside somewhere. But until we recognize that it's there, what can we do but splash around, treading water? The Wise are Who They Are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do.

Hating yourself is like hating what God loves. God loves you, so love yourself and love what God loves.