Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.
Siri HustvedtTag: past present memory brain image
It's funny how your relationship with your own looks changes when you go weeks without seeing yourself. None of us really knows what we look like after all. In that nanosecond it takes for a mirror to give our faces back to us our mind has already done all sorts of perverse rearranging.
Nina de GramontTag: image
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
Naomi WolfTag: self-esteem beauty society image eating-disorders
I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.
Douglas PagelsTag: judgement image superficiality
Image is only temporal. Substance endures. Who said, "Image is everything"? And who believed it?
T.F. HodgeTag: endurance beliefs quotes image substabce
And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.
J. KrishnamurtiTag: self image krishnamurti
Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.
Dan ChaonDark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.
Dee RemyTag: life sleep death tragedy self-image ego dying image mirror exhaustion scared sleeplessness tired
Very sweetly, he always told her he loved her just the way she was. Although, honestly he had no idea. She shuddered to think what she would really look like if she stopped waxing, plucking, highlighting, manicuring, applying make-up and
dressing with care and concentration.
Tag: beauty humour makeup image self-confidence-image
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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