Frans de Waal Quotes

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Hey Rid?" She stopped and turned to look at him, almost ruefully. Like she couldn't help what she was any more then a shark could help being a shark, but if she could... "Yeah, Shrinky Dink?" "You're not all bad." She looked right at him and almost smiled. "You know what they say. Maybe I'm just drawn that way.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

People see us as no better than we are.

When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.

Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not to be afraid of that when that happens. I am not trying to obliterate myself and completely hide within the images like I used to.

I can't look at the mirror beyond two minutes. I don't know what to look at. What is the point of looking at yourself? You can't change your face.

I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.'

I say whatever I want, I look whatever I want. That doesn't mean I don't question myself and feel insecure.

I am my own heaven and hell!

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.

In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.

I don't think the way I look at myself has changed.

I see myself as the same person as I was, as I am now.

People who see themselves as victims are known not to be sensitive to the suffering of others.