Teju Cole Quotes

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

That's the biggest thing to separate - your body from your self worth.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of their own imagination.

Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!

Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

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

But no man's a hero to himself.

I like who I am, and am puzzled to find that not everybody shares this opinion.

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."

There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people's opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over time came to see how unhealthy that was. I mean it's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers.

The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.

You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?

Every man is the hero of his own song.

Every man is a hero of his own story.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.