80 Quotes About Self-perception

I was fucked-up in some essential way that other people could see, but I couldn’t.

Ale přimět se vidět, jak úžasní jste vy sami, to je jako tlačit do kopce obří marshmallow.

He was too many things at once - a boy, a man, and everything in between - and the differing parts of himself seldom came into balance. She found him attractive in that way. Yet the perception saddened her: she herself wasn't too many things, but too few.

All mists curl off the roof of my being. That confidence I shall keep to my dying day. Like a long wave, like a roll of heavy waters, he washes over me, his devastating presence - dragging me open, laying bare the pebbles on the shore of my soul. It was humiliating. I was turned to small stones.

We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw - not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain.

Presque tous les malheurs de la vie viennent des fausses idées que nous avons sur ce qui nous arrive. Connaître à fond les hommes, juger sainement des événements, est donc un grand pas vers le bonheur."("Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely, is, therefore, a great step towards happiness.")[Journal entry, 10 December 1801]

Your self-reliance, self-appraisal and self- perception depends on how successful you are at knowing who God has created you to become