Perceived Self Quotes

Who you are moment to moment is just a story.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

If I was as relaxed as what I perceived myself to be, I would not be able to multi-task the way I multi-task.

Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?

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.

When you look into a mirror it is not yourself you see, but a kind of apish error posed in fearful symmetry kool uoy nehW rorrim a otni ton si ti ˛ees uoy flesruoy dnik a tub rorre hsipa fo lufraef ni desop yrtemmys

I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't have the same voice and the same mannerisms. They were booking 'Samantha,' and I would show up.

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.