W. H. Auden Quotes

It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.

The clothes are not making me... If I like it, that's all that matters...It's not about the clothes. It's about how I am as a person and how confident I am.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.

There's not one person that I say I want to look like.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

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

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.

I don't think anybody deserves to be defined totally by his enemies.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.