Essence Atkins Quotes

She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes, well, that's all wonderfully self-affirming and very strong-minded as any decent woman should be these days, but let's just face facts here and say that when a woman - no, when a person is thinking about feeling sexy, it is always with the idea of someone else in mind.

We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?

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

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I used to hate looking in the mirror. I've grown up into myself and now I'm happy with the way I look.

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.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I'll still be fly.

I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was.

What it's like to be me? You know, it's good to be me. My life is good.

It took a long time, and a lot of years, for me to get comfortable with myself, like the way I am now.

I feel more comfortable with myself now. I don't know if I feel sexier. I feel more whole.

Clothes can hide you from yourself but a bikini sure can't.

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

You have to look in the mirror and see yourself. If it feels good, then I know it's for me. I don't dress to be stared at, I dress for myself.

The hand you hold the longest is your own.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

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.

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome.

It's hard to judge yourself. Each Essence cover represents a different special moment in my life. One is about keeping it sexy in my 40s, so I'm not mad about that either.