Roald Dahl Quotes

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.

What you look like has nothing to do with what you think about yourself.

The way you look on the outside has a definite bearing on how you feel and see yourself on the inside.

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

I think I have a mental nappy attitude.

I want to look beautiful.

If anyone says negative things about me, then it stays with me for many years.

Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our heart, and our hope, appreciation and joy gradually wane.

The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.

Beauty is only a look. It has nothing to do with what I'm like inside.

One of the greatest things my therapist said to me ... and it really blew my mind in the greatest way, he just said, "Look in the mirror less."

Most illness begins with a negative mind.

Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.

Once we start thinking of ourselves as polluted, there is not much incentive to behave well, and the trip down the slippery slope is likely.

Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.

I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you're bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it's going to make you miserable?

... But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive.

When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

If you think you’re attractive, you’re always attractive.

I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face.