Perez Hilton Quotes

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another

I certainly had an arrogant streak. And I certainly was defensive in certain cases. Maybe I'm still arrogant, but I try not to be.

I've got nothing to be ashamed of.

What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That's what brought me down.

My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.

You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of.

It doesn't matter how many people say 'well, everyone makes mistakes Ricky, you've had a great career you should be proud of yourself' but that doesn't mean much compared to what goes on between my ears.

You don't have to be scared of what other people are thinking. You don't need to feel judged by other people.

…I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me.

Shut off the internal bashing.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

I divorce myself from listeners who aren't tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it's all right, and then they go out.

No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.

A women who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations.

If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.

When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive.