Quotes About Seeing Yourself

#1. Never ride your horse more than five-and-thirty miles a day, always taking more care of him than of yourself; which is right and reasonable, seeing as how the horse is the best animal of the two.

George Henry Borrow

#2. How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#3. Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

Zero Mostel

#4. To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.

George Saunders

#5. I'd say all mirrors are magical, or can be.
They show you yourself after all.
Really seeing yourself, though, that's the hard part.

Adam Gidwitz

#6. They say before you make something happen you have to see it yourself. I have been seeing it for a long time and I am living my dream.

Adrien Broner

#7. Seeing that nothing is solid or permanent you begin to make yourself at home in the unknown.

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

#8. Looking at a pure heart is like looking in to a mirror. All you will see is your own reflection. If you are corrupt, you will see corruption. If you are pure, you will see purity. But don't blame the mirror, all you are seeing is yourself.
- Kambiz Mostofizadeh

Kambiz Mostofizadeh

#9. Meditation is neither shutting things out nor off. It is seeing things clearly, and deliberately positioning yourself differently in relationship to them.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#10. I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.

Dylan Bruce

#11. Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?

David Brooks

#12. I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.

Gillian Anderson

#13. It's the sheer joy of seeing things grow and helping them to grow, even harvesting the stuff that you've grown yourself, no matter how old you are.

Peter Cundall

#14. You know, when you look into the Guru's eyes you're just seeing yourself. If you see the Guru, then you're missing the point of the Guru.

Art Hochberg

#15. The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#16. There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.

Elisabeth Moss

#17. Seeing your work in something animated, you realize how little you have to do with all of it. It's always a surprise, and its always exciting to see. You never know what is going to happen when you're in that room by yourself.

Jane Lynch

#18. You yourself are unique
you have ways of seeing your world that are unlike those of anyone else
so find ways to more faithfully express that, and your style will emerge.

David DuChemin

#19. When you look out of a window, when you look at anything, you know what you're seeing? Yourself. A thing can only look beautiful or romantic or inspiring only if the beauty or romance or inspiration is inside you.

Fredric Brown

#20. Once people see you cry, it's like they own part of you. It's like you ripped a hole in yourself, and they saw through whatever armor you had on, got a good long view of all the screaming alien goop underneath.

Stefan Bachmann

#21. Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

William Klein

#22. This benefit of seeing ... can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image ... the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.

Dorothea Lange

#23. If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you're not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a being with whom you can and should be in relation with, then you're going to take the resource.

Derrick Jensen

#24. My greatest obstacle has to be accepting that the business that I chose to be part of is based on rejection and constantly trying to prove yourself. Letting go of seeing my accent and the way I speak as a limitation. Accepting it as who I am and where I came from.

Roselyn Sanchez

#25. Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.

Laura Wade

#26. I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

Alice Walker

#27. I skate a lot with my shirt off, so working out has always been important to me. I almost have as much fun working out as I do skating. And seeing your body change, and seeing yourself get bigger and more toned and cut, makes a big difference in how you feel about yourself.

Ryan Sheckler

#28. It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned?

Jean Rhys

#29. Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#30. Behead yourself! ... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!

Rumi

#31. The most profound state of awareness comes from being devoted to your present circumstances, absorbing the sorrows and joys of others, so that you may see yourself within them, which in actuality is you.

Lujan Matus

#32. Finding yourself with your loves gives blood to existence, looking at one another seeing the universe.

Gwen Calvo

#33. Through seeing the good in others, you also see the best within yourself.

Warren Cassell Jr.

#34. To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is
not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

Joseph Campbell

#35. dealing with drunks and hypes and homeless people who've got one foot in reality and the other in the Twilight Zone, you get used to seeing big changes in people, and usually not changes for the better. You teach yourself to see who's under the new bruises and the fresh coats of dirt.

Stephen King

#36. So you work on yourself as a gift to other human beings. Then you use every situation you have with other human beings as a vehicle to work on yourself by seeing where you get stuck-where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the stuff.

Ram Dass

#37. There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them.

Jean Plaidy

#38. There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.

Michael Haneke

#39. I always think part of success is being able to replicate results, taking what is interesting or viable about yourself as a professional person and seeing if you bring it into different situations with similar results.

Robert Downey Jr.

#40. Waking up is seeing yourself just as you are, not as you would like to be nor as you are afraid you might be.

Paul Lowe

#41. Ask yourself, 'What is obstructing my vision?' What is the difference between seeing and looking?

Joshua L. Goldberg

#42. To be perfectly honest, it scared me a little. You get so used to seeing the same thing in the mirror every day you stop thinking about what you look like.

Cat Clarke

#43. When you begin with the premise "I treat everyone equally," you have already blinkered yourself from seeing where you don't, or can't, or shouldn't. There is no way to treat two people equally, because they are each unique, with respective strengths and weaknesses.

Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#44. Education is thinking, and thinking is looking for yourself and seeing what's there, not what you got told was there.

William Least Heat-Moon

#45. Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

Ansel Adams

#46. When you see a person for the first time, you're not seeing him, but seeing yourself and your whole life in his mirror.

Debasish Mridha

#47. It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all.

Sylvie Meis

#48. Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

Mehmet Oz

#49. They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be?

Scott Rudin

#50. That's what reframing your role is all about: thinking about how your work affects others, looking at the larger purpose of your work and whom it benefits, and seeing yourself as a potential difference maker.

David Sturt

#51. Every day, or at least twice a week, take a few minutes and focus on seeing yourself in joy. Feel yourself in joy. Imagine only joy ahead in your life and see yourself basking in it. As you do this the Universe will move all people, circumstances, and events to bring you joy, joy and more joy.

Rhonda Byrne

#52. Seeing your child for the first time is rarest of occasions. You see glimpses of yourself from the past. The potential of a brand new life happening right before your eyes. And most importantly, that life begins again.

J.R. Rim

#53. There's no denying you'll find yourself in places you won't want to be, seeing things you wish you weren't seeing, but resistance to now is resistance to the very life you're living.

Jared T.L.C.

#54. And here's the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty that others see clearly and you may hardly know exists. That is also part of the truth about you.

Steve Goodier

#55. Life is an illusion which wisely prevents you from seeing yourself fully.

Bryant McGill

#56. You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.

John Darnielle

#57. You're not seeing anything, saying anything. The weird paradox is that you think you're at the center of things, and that makes your opinions more valuable, but you yourself are becoming less vibrant. I bet you haven't done anything offscreen in months.

Dave Eggers

#58. I've traveled. All over. I've never seen anything like you. How could anything be put together like you? Do you know how beautiful you are? Have you looked at yourself?'
'I'm looking now.

Toni Morrison

#59. I really believe in a oneness. So if I'm looking at somebody else, it's not in a narcissistic way, but you're kind of seeing yourself.

Toni Collette

#60. Seeing your glucose every minute on your phone, it really changes your lifestyle. You ask yourself, 'Do I really need that piece of cake? No, because I don't want to stress out my pancreas.'

Eric Topol

#61. The lambs will stop for now. But, Clarice, you judge yourself with all the mercy of the dungeon scales at Threave; you'll have to earn it again and again, the blessed silence. Because it's the plight that drives you, seeing the plight, and the plight will not end, ever.

Thomas Harris

#62. Flirting is probably just as much about falling in love with yourself as it is with someone else. It's about seeing yourself through someone's eyes and realizing there is plenty to like about yourself, plenty of reasons someone might hang on your every word.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#63. The name 'Reflect It Back' comes from the idea of not only giving back but also seeing yourself in someone else.

Max Carver

#64. Of the countless ways to feel old in your 40s, perhaps none is quite as perplexing as seeing a young person trendily decked out in 1980s-style garb and saying to yourself, 'I can't believe that look is back in style. It was bad enough the first time around!'

Meghan Daum

#65. When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit."

Sandra Bullock

#66. When you are looking at a person, you are not seeing him; you are seeing yourself through his reflective mirror.

Debasish Mridha

#67. If you have to use the words, "deep down" all that means is you're fooling yourself. You're seeing what you want to see and not what's really there.

Nyrae Dawn

#68. Seeing when you justify yourself and when you blame others is not a reason to criticize yourself, but actually an opportunity to recognize what all people do and how it imprisons us in a very limited perspective of this world.

Pema Chodron

#69. You don't feel as real if you don't see yourself reflected in the media [ ... ] There's something very powerful about seeing yourself represented.

Dwayne McDuffie

#70. If seeing that other person's pain brings up your fear or anger or confusion (which often happens), just start doing tonglen for yourself and all the other people who are stuck in the very same way.

Pema Chodron

#71. Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.

Tom Freston

#72. The law is about you looking at yourself. The new covenant is all about you seeing Jesus.

Joseph Prince

#73. By understanding how all things arise together, you shift from viewing yourself as acting upon and realizing all things, to a new vision of seeing all things coming forth and realizing you.

Reb Anderson

#74. But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, we may be intrigued for a season. But we will not be stunned with joy, as when the fog clears and you find yourself on the brink of some vast precipice.

John Piper

#75. The first step on the path to positive change is acknowledgement that change is necessary and possible. Open yourself to the possibility of seeing the world in a new way. What do you have to lose?

Alex Blackwell

#76. The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.

Charles Frazier

#77. The first thing you need to do is stop seeing yourself through the eyes of those you've left behind.

Tyler Robbins

#78. Don't expect others to change. Instead, take on the project and see if you can become the change you want to see in the world. Try your best to let go of anger, blame and seeing yourself as a victim.

Sharon Gannon

#79. When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.

Leo Ornstein

#80. Practise really seeing yourself in the mirror. This is NOT about examining yourself. This is about you looking beyond your external image to connect with your soul. Look upon yourself with complete appreciation and acceptance. You are so beautiful.

Miya Yamanouchi

#81. I've always wanted to be in comedy ... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream.

Anna Akana

#82. I guess that seeing yourself on a screen is something that you get used to. Let's face it, these days, there's really nothing that you do that doesn't get filmed.

Lars Ulrich

#83. Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them ... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#84. if you see for yourself, hear for yourself, and enter deeply enough this seeing and hearing, all things will speak with and through you.

Jane Hirshfield

#85. Socrates made the same remark to one who complained; he said: Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason which set you wandering is ever at your heels.

Seneca.

#86. Humility begins with seeing who God is, seeing yourself compared to God, and then seeing yourself as God sees you.

Steven J. Lawson

#87. You see, when you're in love, you look for similarities with your beloved. Since the root of all conflict is seeing differences between yourself and another, love truly seems to be the key to eliminating conflict.

Doreen Virtue

#88. Enlightenment is beyond self-improvement and spiritual seeking. It is the final resolution of a case of mistaken identity. It is the direct recognition of your eternal nature and the seeing through of who you have falsely believed yourself to be.

Gary Crowley

#89. There are great advantages to seeing yourself as an accident created by amateur parents as they practiced. You then have been left in an imperfect state and the rest is up to you. Only the most pitifully inept child requires perfection from parents.

Frank Pittman

#90. Bikram Yoga is the first time you start loving yourself because it is the first time you start seeing yourself.

Rajashree Choudhury

#91. Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.

Ed Harris

#92. I've really learned to appreciate the magic of challenging yourself. Seeing yourself somewhere new. There's a whole world out there.

Stacie Hammond

#93. Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.

Socrates

#94. When you love someone, seeing them in pain can be harder than being in pain yourself.

Megan Hart

#95. Strength is seeing yourself as you are.

Taro Okamoto

#96. If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself.

Dennis Kucinich

#97. True self confidence happens when you stop blaming others for not seeing what you love about yourself. Not everyone has the same list of needs.

Shannon L. Alder

#98. Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.

Sharon Olds

#99. If it is difficult to know yourself as an individual, it seems to be more complex as a couple. So if you say, "Oh I like a person who is like this and that," you might take away the possibility of seeing the only one that might be right for you.

Jack Nicholson

#100. You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.

Manny Montana