George Orwell Quotes

I know that I am more than my personality, my body, and my body image.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

You look in the mirror, but you don't see what you actually look like.

I don't look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I see a lot of different characters and a lot of different things.

What do I see when I look in the mirror? One handsome man. No, I see the same person I have seen for the last 27 years: the person I believed I could be when I was a child, the person I have inspired and dreamed to be all my life, and that's the person I have seen, from being that big to as big as the roof - the same guy.

I changed my thinking on the whole subject of what it is to be attractive. It's fine, but I know that ultimately what I am and who I am is not cheekbones and a jawline, if you catch my drift. I ultimately know that who I am is not directly proportional to abs or straight teeth.

I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me.

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

You can't escape from yourself, can you?

I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can’t see what everyone else sees in me. I don’t feel beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I never saw beautiful. For this to happen to someone like me, it’s devastating, Jonas. I don’t want you to think it’s vanity, it isn’t. I can’t see me and I need to be able to do that. I need to find out what I’m like and what I want. I have to be comfortable in my own skin before I can be in a relationship the way you want.

I never confused what I had with what I was.

Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.

A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty, "This is not I." Maud knew this neat division represented an over-simplification. The doll-mask she saw had nothing to do with her, nothing.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

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

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.

I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.

I'm happy that I have a look, but I don't over-analyse whether or not it's beautiful or ugly.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

You know, most people really don't know me.