Top 99 Quotes About Self Perception
#1. The impression she left on others and her self-perception had been sewn into a whole so consummate that she could no longer tell how much of each day was defined by what was wished upon her and how much of it was what she really wanted.
--Three Daughters of Eve.
Elif Shafak
#2. So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.
Pankaj Mishra
#3. Your self-reliance, self-appraisal and self- perception depends on how successful you are at knowing who God has created you to become
Sunday Adelaja
#4. Yoga does not always cure stress. It neutralizes it through increasing awareness and by changing self-perception.
Debasish Mridha
#5. The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.
Naomi Wolf
#6. Dear God, Please lift me above the shadows Of my negative self-perception. Please deliver me of the chains That keep me bound to a smaller life. Please show me the beauty You have placed in me, And give me faith that it is there. Amen.
Marianne Williamson
#7. [Self] Perception is directly proportional to performance. Change a youth's perception, and you change their performance, their future... and their life.
Justin Young
#9. The simple, brief experience of imagining oneself as another transformed both self-perception and, through this transformation, behavior. The maxim "fake it till you make it" gains empirical support.
Cordelia Fine
#10. Racing is an escape from society. From symbols of status, and self-perception. A chance to just be. For everyone to just be, with each other.
Erin Beresini
#11. What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception.
Christopher Golden
#12. If you are grading your own test, will you pass every time!
Be careful of your self-perception because it could deceive you.
Marion Hill
#13. I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we will never be able to leave it experientially on a permanent basis.
Thomas Metzinger
#14. Self- Perception blossoms only in pure hearts! We have to first win our internal enemies. These are the enemies who damage the strong layer of conscience.
Rajasaraswathii
#15. Greatness demands that I understand that I am not nearly as big as I thought myself to be, but that I am capable of becoming far bigger than I ever imagined myself to be.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#16. O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#17. There is that gnawing feeling that we are far more than what we believe ourselves to be. Maybe it's time to believe the gnawing.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#18. A more truthful perception may be seen from the perspective of the whole - what we really are, beyond names, roles, education, religion and other information added to our true nature.
Ilchi Lee
#19. When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.
Frederick Lenz
#20. The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don't die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.
Chuck Palahniuk
#21. My ego mind - my own self-hatred masquerading as self-love - would point me always in the direction of fear, luring me toward the blaming thought, the attack or defense, the perception of guilt in myself or others.
Marianne Williamson
#22. Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.
Harold Bloom
#23. The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.
J.R. Rim
#25. You look up for a moment and you're not sure which life is real. You've split yourself into so many honeycombed parts that they barely notice each other---all of them pacing, concurrently, parallel streams of though, and each one thinks of its self as me.
Dan Chaon
#26. Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
Lao-Tzu
#27. Orito pictures the human mind as a loom that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self, and which sometimes calls itself Perception.
David Mitchell
#28. To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?
Pascal Mercier
#29. I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.
Jonathan Ames
#30. Who people think they are and what people think they want is not really who they are or what they want.
Laurie Frankel
#31. We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Virginia Satir
#32. Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl
Miranda July
#33. There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.
Gautama Buddha
#34. With the awakening of his emotions, his first perception was a sense of futility, a dull ache at the utter grayness of his life.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#35. Whatever you see when you look at your self will be the reflection of your inner perception.
Debasish Mridha
#36. Thoreau and Huxley calmly state what I have spent years trying to articulate, and never found the words for doing so. To read the words of these great men is to read the highest expression of my very self which is inexpressible due to the shortcomings of my particular nature.
Chris Matakas
#37. Intuition is not a different dimension of perception, as people usually try to make out. Intuition is just a quicker way of arriving at the same answer. Intuition is just a way of making use of the data and jumping the steps.
Sadhguru
#38. People don't act the way they do because of me. They just act out their own projection of reality, and so do I.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#39. Since any effort always translates into more learning about a particular subject, we logically believe that we can determine our success in a linear fashion, but this doesn't happen because our self-image always filters our perception of reality.
Robin Sacredfire
#40. Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking 'muck' across the floor of fact.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#41. Butterflies can't see their wings. They can't see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.
Naya Rivera
#42. Sometimes the heart can hear what the ears do not.
A.J. Darkholme
#43. Sometimes we must forge distance to gauge clarity in our vision and perception.
Aisha Mirza
#44. Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control.
George Eliot
#45. Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.
Michael Arndt
#46. The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#47. The past is perception. The future is unknown. The only truth is the present.
Melissa Heisler
#48. There is an inherent unity and harmony in the universe. The divisions and disharmony we find on earth are created by the perception of separateness that people developed over a period of time.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#49. The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
Ramana Maharshi
#50. People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
Saadi
#51. We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
Beyonce Knowles
#52. What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.
David Mitchell
#53. I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.
Richard Rohr
#54. There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.
Frederick Lenz
#55. Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.
Frederick Lenz
#56. Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception.
Frederick Lenz
#57. Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.
Jaggi Vasudev
#58. My heart kind of hurt when I looked at her. Not because I was in love, but because I could tell from looking at her that she didn't hate herself. Not only didn't she seem to hate herself, she barely seemed to think about herself. How fucking glorious must that be?
Susan Juby
#59. Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness.
Shannon L. Alder
#60. 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.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#61. Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.
Katherine Mansfield
#62. Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not in vague theological ideas, but in the acquisition of Self-realization.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#63. The flawlessly beautiful were flawlessy happy, weren't they? To Kristy this had always seemed self-evident. Tonight, however, the alcohol made her wonder if envy hadn't blinded her. Perhaps to be flawless was another kind of sadness.
Clive Barker
#64. Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.
Naomi Wolf
#65. You'll always come back to warn him, no matter how much danger it could put you in, no matter what it costs you, because he cared for you when you thought you were nothing. You were never nothing. That didn't matter. Perception is everything in this world
Seanan McGuire
#66. Drake just stands for Do Right And Kill Everything
Drake
#67. You can only carry the illusive personality in your mind until you realize the truth behind it, but the time you realize the truth, you just cannot hold the illusive self of yours, in the mind.
Roshan Sharma
#68. Insights are everything. They play central parts in the actualization of destiny. A dangerous insights becomes a colossal executioner. Latching your fate with noble thoughts spares you a life of self-limitation.
Darmie Orem
#69. The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.
Ashim Shanker
#70. It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.
Mahatma Gandhi
#72. The world is your perception of it. Inside and outside always match - they're reflections of each other. The world is a mirror image of your mind.
Byron Katie
#73. If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
Alain De Botton
#74. The whole objective universe is created, ordered, by our perception and by our sense of self.
Frederick Lenz
#75. It's probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are. (413)
Victoria Moran
#76. There are billions of people in the world, and each one of them has their own view of reality.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#77. Self is.
Self is body and bodily
perception. Self is thought, memory,
belief. Self creates. Self destroys.
Self learns, discovers, becomes.
Self shapes. Self adapts. Self
invents its own reasons for being.
To shape God, shape Self.
Octavia E. Butler
#78. O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.
Robert Burns
#79. And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. All these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach writing, cartooning, engineering, to add inches to the biceps and to develop the bust
Nathanael West
#81. That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.
Wally Lamb
#82. Although we have refined our behavior over many centuries, the basic perception that we are individual beings, separate from the rest of the world, remains unchanged, and so how we relate to the world remains unchanged. Because separation is an illusion, control is also an illusion.
Ilchi Lee
#83. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him..
Thomas Szasz
#84. She had been so vulnerable, and Norah wanted only to protect her. But that vulnerability was tied to a massive mistake, a perception of herself too damaged to love. If Norah got anything from this book, it's that we're all damaged. The tragedy is letting it define you.
Ellen Meister
#85. Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing.
Pawan Mishra
#86. Students usually don't refer to themselves as nerds until someone else accuses them of being one.
Alexandra Robbins
#87. We know the truth of a matter when we are able to see and understand it. The truth does not change, only our perception of the truth changes depending on how clearly we see and how much we understand.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#88. When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#89. Ego is this this higher conscious concept that we have of ourselves and we feel that we must live by it with a closed mind. We can be Self Aware of this concept or purely just blinded. I think the answer to this problem is being Self Aware and changing our current perception for the better.
Matthew Donnelly
#90. My perception of my life crashed from high tragedy to juvenile self-pity in a matter of moments.
Robin Hobb
#91. There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.
Jacqueline Carey
#92. I was fucked-up in some essential way that other people could see, but I couldn't.
Jane Devin
#93. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
#94. Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.
Frederick Lenz
#95. If we reverse the outer shell and the essence
in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell
our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.
Haruki Murakami
#96. The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.
Edward De Bono
#97. Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.
Mark Twain
#98. Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.
Alan Hirsch
#99. I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.
Fred Frith
#100. I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?
Bill Hicks
