Jose Feliciano Quotes

You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.

Music made me feel like I was sexy. Music made me feel like I wasn't just a blind guy.

It's tough being me.

I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel.

If you're sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it.

Self esteem and a healthy body image for people with disabilities are so often hard-fought.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

These days, I feel like a chunky spy in a thinner world. Strangers tell fat jokes in front of me. Jokes not meant for me. But... completely for the woman I used to be 150 pounds ago. The woman I could be again one day. The woman I will always be inside. Because being thinner doesn't make you a different person. It just makes you thinner.

At a young age, I was very aware I was different and not perceived in a good way. For a lot of my adolescence, I struggled with that, trying to identify where I belong and who my real friends are.

I am who I am and I don't pretend not to be single or burned. And men might not fancy me because I'm too short or too thin.

The amount of people that have said, 'You've inspired me to be confident. I've come out to my friends because of you,' that reduces me to tears every time, because I'm just, like, little old me from Hull has had an implication on somebody's life. That's massive to me. Massive.

I am quite comfortable in my own skin and I am also a secure person.

Confidence literally starts from yourself. You have to go look in the mirror at yourself. If you don't like what you see, you're going to give off that energy.

Growing up, I was the awkward, chubby kid. I had a few close friends, but I was the first one to be bullied.

It sounds cheesy, but if you feel good about yourself, it's going to show on the outside.

I'm just very body-conscious. Sometimes I'm really proud that I don't look like other pop stars. But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'

I don't spend a lot of time worrying about how I look and I don't fall into the trap of judging myself by my appearance.

I guess that there are many ways to look at being single, and none of them should include shame or feeling less valued.

I've learned that no matter what shape you get your body into, if you don't get your head right, you're not going to feel good about yourself.

Nobody knows what really a beautiful person is, so don't worry. If you have pimples today, it's nothing. If you have a bad hair day, it's nothing. Feel beautiful. Feel sexy, and it will shine. It will show outside.

In the past, I think I was scared of showing myself. I thought people disliked me because I received so much hate when I was young. But as I grew older, I realized that there were people who disliked me and people who liked me. So I learned that there was no need for me to be so conscious of what others thought about me.

When I was launched in 2010, people told me that I wasn't the best looking guy, so I would have to act really well. I am aware that I am not conventionally good looking. I have heard it so many times that I have started believing it.

Now I almost overly embrace how weird I am, how I look and how oddly camp I am. It's almost too honest for me because I harboured ambitions to be quite a cool, good-looking guy.

Sometimes I wake up and think I look horrible. And sometimes I see a strong woman.