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DATE: July 31, 2026 at 05:00AM
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NEW YORK TIMES PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGISTS FEEDTITLE: In a World of Mirrors, Everything Is Strange
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/opinion/face-self-reflection-technology-video.html
Staring at ourselves on screens, on video and on social media is taking us to a dark place.
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/opinion/face-self-reflection-technology-video.html
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DATE: July 31, 2026 at 05:00AM
SOURCE:
NEW YORK TIMES PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGISTS FEEDTITLE: In a World of Mirrors, Everything Is Strange
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/opinion/face-self-reflection-technology-video.html
Staring at ourselves on screens, on video and on social media is taking us to a dark place.
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/opinion/face-self-reflection-technology-video.html
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Hollywood Reporter: Social Media Face-Off: What’s Keeping Plastic Surgery Influencers Up at Night. “Educated speculation made these plastic surgeons and aesthetics experts niche stars in their own right. And since they’ve infiltrated my algorithm, I’ve noticed that many are starting to use their platforms for more than analyzing actresses and posting before-and-after shots of their own […]
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Hollywood Reporter: Social Media Face-Off: What’s Keeping Plastic Surgery Influencers Up at Night. “Educated speculation made these plastic surgeons and aesthetics experts niche stars in their own right. And since they’ve infiltrated my algorithm, I’ve noticed that many are starting to use their platforms for more than analyzing actresses and posting before-and-after shots of their own […]
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 100 (3.14.100) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11352/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hoffer #erichoffer #accusation #error #flaws #guilt #imperfections #projection #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfimage #selfloathing #sensitivity #shame #shortcomings #weaknesses
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 100 (3.14.100) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11352/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hoffer #erichoffer #accusation #error #flaws #guilt #imperfections #projection #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfimage #selfloathing #sensitivity #shame #shortcomings #weaknesses
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The Unbidden Bloom: A Child's Navel-Gazing Over Peach Fuzz
Parents debate removing peach fuzz from a 9-year-old girl's face. Learn about the pros and cons of early hair removal for children.
#ChildAppearance, #ParentingDebate, #PeachFuzz, #SelfImage, #EarlyGrooming
https://newsletter.tf/9-year-old-girl-facial-hair-peach-fuzz-removal/
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A 9-year-old girl's facial hair is causing concern for parents. This issue highlights growing societal pressure on children's appearance.
#ChildAppearance, #ParentingDebate, #PeachFuzz, #SelfImage, #EarlyGrooming
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
Audre Lorde (1934-1992) American writer, feminist, civil rights activist
Essay (1983-10), “Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger,” Essence Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 6More about this quote: wist.info/lorde-audre/49145/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #audrelorde #acceptance #defense #guilt #history #leverage #self #selfacceptance #selfdefense #selfimage #shame #vulnerability #weakness #weapon
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
Audre Lorde (1934-1992) American writer, feminist, civil rights activist
Essay (1983-10), “Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger,” Essence Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 6More about this quote: wist.info/lorde-audre/49145/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #audrelorde #acceptance #defense #guilt #history #leverage #self #selfacceptance #selfdefense #selfimage #shame #vulnerability #weakness #weapon
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Parent’s have such a STRONG impact on our #selfimage. Jackson was told he was #lazy and a #liar for things that had nothing to do with him. Yet, because it was a parent, he believed it. #testimony #Martyria
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So let us look for beauty and grace, for love and friendship, for that which is creative and birth-giving and soul-stretching. Let us dare to laugh at ourselves, healthy, affirmative laughter. Only when we take ourselves lightly can we take ourselves seriously, so that we are given the courage to say, “Yes! I dare disturb the universe.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/838…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lengle #madeleinelengle #agency #beauty #change #courage #creativity #disturbing #gravitas #humility #humor #laughter #lightheartedness #selfactualization #selfaffirmation #selfappreciation #selfchallenging #selfesteem #selfimage #selfimportance #selfliberation #selfregard.selftrust #selfunderstanding #selfworth #senseofhumor #stretchgoals
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The Conversation: Looksmaxxing isn’t just a TikTok trend – it often reflects severe body image issues in teen boys and young men. “Much of the media coverage of looksmaxxing has focused on cultural dimensions, such as the misogynist ideology underlying this trend and its implications for cultural conversations about masculinity. Meanwhile, looksmaxxers with an especially large following of […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/23/the-conversation-looksmaxxing-isnt-just-a-tiktok-trend-it-often-reflects-severe-body-image-issues-in-teen-boys-and-young-men/ -
The Conversation: Looksmaxxing isn’t just a TikTok trend – it often reflects severe body image issues in teen boys and young men. “Much of the media coverage of looksmaxxing has focused on cultural dimensions, such as the misogynist ideology underlying this trend and its implications for cultural conversations about masculinity. Meanwhile, looksmaxxers with an especially large following of […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/23/the-conversation-looksmaxxing-isnt-just-a-tiktok-trend-it-often-reflects-severe-body-image-issues-in-teen-boys-and-young-men/ -
Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, “to be free from freedom.” It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 2, ch. 5, § 26 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10751/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #burden #cause #collectiveguilt #control #escape #freedom #individual #movement #obedience #orders #responsibility #selfcontempt #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfimage #selfliberation #selfopinion #selfregard #selfrespect #selfresponsibility #truebeliever
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MEDEA: Let no one think of me
As humble or weak or passive; let them understand
I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies,
Loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.
[ΜΉΔΕΙΑ:μηδείς με φαύλην κἀσθενῆ νομιζέτω
μηδ᾽ ἡσυχαίαν, ἀλλὰ θατέρου τρόπου,
βαρεῖαν ἐχθροῖς καὶ φίλοισιν εὐμενῆ:
810τῶν γὰρ τοιούτων εὐκλεέστατος βίος.]Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 807ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/83545/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #appearances #enemies #friends #selfassessment #selfevaluation #selfimage #underestimation #weakness
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There is another kind of “glory”: conceiving too high an opinion of our worth. This is an undeserved feeling by which we value ourselves, and that makes us think ourselves different than we are, just as the passion of love lends beauties and graces to the object it embraces and makes those smitten by it — with their judgment blurred and altered — find what they love different, and more perfect, than it is.
[Il y a une autre sorte de gloire, qui est une trop bonne opinion, que nous concevons de nostre valeur. C’est un’affection inconsideree, dequoy nous nous cherissons, qui nous represente à nous mesmes, autres que nous ne sommes. Comme la passion amoureuse preste des beautez, & des graces, au subject qu’elle embrasse ; & fait que ceux qui en sont espris, trouvent d’un jugement trouble & alteré, ce qu’ils aiment, autre & plus parfait qu’il n’est.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #ego #glory #pride #selfadmiration #selfapproval #selfassessment #selfdeception #selfdelusion #selfevaluation #selfglorification #selfimage #selflove #selfperception #selfregard #selfrighteousness #selfvalue #selfworth #vainglory #vanity #humility
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There is another kind of “glory”: conceiving too high an opinion of our worth. This is an undeserved feeling by which we value ourselves, and that makes us think ourselves different than we are, just as the passion of love lends beauties and graces to the object it embraces and makes those smitten by it — with their judgment blurred and altered — find what they love different, and more perfect, than it is.
[Il y a une autre sorte de gloire, qui est une trop bonne opinion, que nous concevons de nostre valeur. C’est un’affection inconsideree, dequoy nous nous cherissons, qui nous represente à nous mesmes, autres que nous ne sommes. Comme la passion amoureuse preste des beautez, & des graces, au subject qu’elle embrasse ; & fait que ceux qui en sont espris, trouvent d’un jugement trouble & alteré, ce qu’ils aiment, autre & plus parfait qu’il n’est.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #ego #glory #pride #selfadmiration #selfapproval #selfassessment #selfdeception #selfdelusion #selfevaluation #selfglorification #selfimage #selflove #selfperception #selfregard #selfrighteousness #selfvalue #selfworth #vainglory #vanity #humility
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
Often have I marvelled how each one of us loves himself above all men, yet sets less store by his own opinion of himself than by that of everyone else.
[Πολλάκις ἐθαύμασα πῶς ἑαυτὸν μὲν ἕκαστος μᾶλλον πάντων φιλεῖ, τὴν δὲ ἑαυτοῦ περὶ αὑτοῦ ὑπόληψιν ἐν ἐλάττονι λόγῳ τίθεται ἢ τὴν τῶν ἄλλων.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 12, ch. 4 (12.4) (AD 161-180) [tr. Haines (Loeb) (1916)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/4378…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #codependency #ego #insecurity #integrity #opinion #opinionofothers #reputation #selfassessment #selfesteem #selfimage #selflove #selfopinion #support #validation #vanity
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 4, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, ch. 11 [Arthur] (1984)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/82214/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #solongandthanksforallthefish #adult #humannature #maturity #precedent #principle #realworld #reality #selfimage #truth
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 4, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, ch. 11 [Arthur] (1984)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/82214/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #solongandthanksforallthefish #adult #humannature #maturity #precedent #principle #realworld #reality #selfimage #truth
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Leveraging inherent human complexity, this discussion pivots to internal leadership – shifting focus from superficial attributes to a holistic self-assessment for sustainable growth. 💼 #beauty #selfimage Deep https://scrollbots.com
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Your self-image isn’t who you are,
https://de320.isrefer.com/go/startsqac8day/Stuartn/
#SelfImage #SelfWorth #Confidence #MentalWellness #ThinkandGrowEducation #RayBehan #SelfImage #Perception -
It's like wearing lots of different outfits, and it's tiring to keep them all on! 😩 #beauty #selfimage
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"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you."
- Mary Lou Retton#quote #quotes #motivation #selflove #love #selfrespect #esteem #resilience #recovery #believeinyourself #selfacceptance #selfappreciation #selfassessment #selfconfidence #selfcriticism #selfimage
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"A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
- Maya Angelou#quote #quotes #motivation #selflove #love #selfrespect #esteem #resilience #recovery #believeinyourself #selfacceptance #selfappreciation #selfassessment #selfconfidence #selfcriticism #selfimage #selfloathing
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"Take the time today to love yourself. You deserve it."
- Avina Celeste#quote #quotes #motivation #selflove #love #selfrespect #esteem #resilience #recovery #believeinyourself #selfacceptance #selfappreciation #selfassessment #selfconfidence #selfcriticism #selfimage #selfloathing
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"You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it."
- Robert Anthony#quote #quotes #motivation #selflove #love #selfrespect #esteem #resilience #recovery #believeinyourself #selfacceptance #selfappreciation #selfassessment #selfconfidence #selfcriticism #selfimage #selfloathing
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"Peace begins with a smile."
- Mother Theresa#quote #quotes #motivation #selflove #love #selfrespect #esteem #resilience #recovery #believeinyourself #selfacceptance #selfappreciation #selfassessment #selfconfidence #selfcriticism #selfimage #selfloathing
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"In the garden of your soul, let self-love be the sun that nourishes the flowers of happiness."
- Anonymous#quote #quotes #motivation #selflove #love #selfrespect #esteem #resilience #recovery #believeinyourself #selfacceptance #selfappreciation #selfassessment #selfconfidence #selfcriticism #selfimage #selfloathing
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"If you're a giver, always looking out for others, always feeling drained because you break yourself so others can stay together, take a break from it. Add value to your own life first. Add self-love and peace to your life first."
- Sylvester McNutt#quote #quotes #motivation #selflove #love #selfrespect #esteem #resilience #recovery #believeinyourself #selfacceptance #selfappreciation #selfassessment #selfconfidence #selfcriticism #selfimage
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"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives."
- Louise Hay#quote #quotes #motivation #selflove #love #selfrespect #esteem #resilience #recovery #believeinyourself #selfacceptance #selfappreciation #selfassessment #selfconfidence #selfcriticism #selfimage #selfloathing
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"Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path."
- Paolo Coelho#quote #quotes #motivation #selflove #love #selfrespect #esteem #resilience #recovery #believeinyourself #selfacceptance #selfappreciation #selfassessment #selfconfidence #selfcriticism #selfimage #selfloathing
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"I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all."
- Coco Chanel#quote #quotes #motivation #selflove #love #selfrespect #esteem #resilience #recovery #believeinyourself #selfacceptance #selfappreciation #selfassessment #selfconfidence #selfcriticism #selfimage #selfloathing
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"Resilience and recovery result from relaxation, rebuilding, and rediscovery."
- Todd Harper
#quote #quotes #motivation #selflove #love #selfrespect #esteem #resilience #recovery #believeinyourself #selfacceptance #selfappreciation #selfassessment #selfconfidence #selfcriticism #selfimage #selfloathing
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"Don’t you dare for one more second, surround yourself with people who are not aware of the awesomeness that you are."
- Karen Salmansohn#quote #quotes #motivation #selflove #love #selfrespect #esteem #believeinyourself #selfacceptance #selfappreciation #selfassessment #selfconfidence #selfcriticism #selfimage #selfloathing
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"It always seems impossible until it's done."
- Nelson Mandela#quote #quotes #motivation #selflove #love #selfrespect #esteem #believeinyourself #selfacceptance #selfappreciation #selfassessment #selfconfidence #selfcriticism #selfimage #selfloathing
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"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."
- Hal Borland#quote #quotes #motivation #selflove #love #selfrespect #esteem #believeinyourself #selfacceptance #selfappreciation #selfassessment #selfconfidence #selfcriticism #selfimage #selfloathing
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It’s not even self-hate, it’s like self-negation, or as I say above, self-rejection.
But there’s also a lack of deservedness, worthiness, suitability.
Also a sense of unloveability, undesirability, unlikeability.
I feel like a thesaurus of inadequacy. A poster boy for “not good enough”.
Sigh. 😞
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It’s not even self-hate, it’s like self-negation, or as I say above, self-rejection.
But there’s also a lack of deservedness, worthiness, suitability.
Also a sense of unloveability, undesirability, unlikeability.
I feel like a thesaurus of inadequacy. A poster boy for “not good enough”.
Sigh. 😞
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Every so really not so very often, I am overwhelmed with a sense of vividly unovercomeable aloneness.
Not loneliness, but a sense I don’t fit with anyone, can’t fit with anyone, will never fit with anyone, and even don’t really deserve to fit with anyone.
I’m not even looking to, right now – my god, I can’t even!
It’s been like this since I was a teenager and I started to think maybe I’d like to be with someone some day, that maybe it would actually be nice.
And it’s certainly not constant, or necessarily related to any individual (it sometimes was as a teenager), or any event.
But it feels so despairing, so final, so…bleak, that I get overwhelmed and teary.
And that’s what happened when I went for a short walk this evening, I just got swamped and overwhelmed by that feeling.
Just typing this is making me teary.
I think this might be a reflection of my response to childhood trauma. An über-rejection of myself by seeing myself as eminently rejectable by others.
I don’t like it, but I’m not really sure what I can do about it.
At least it’s not a constant feeling, but, boy, is it a strong one when it hits. 😞
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
Nothing can be plainer than that each nation gives to its god its peculiar characteristics, and that every individual gives to his god his personal peculiarities.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, IllinoisMore about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #anthropomorphizing #God #projection #reflection #religion #selfimage
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
You may safely go to school with hope; but ere you marry, should have learned the mingled lesson of the world: that dolls are stuffed with sawdust, and yet are excellent play-things; that hope and love address themselves to a perfection never realised, and yet, firmly held, become the salt and staff of life; that you yourself are compacted of infirmities, perfect, you might say, in imperfection, and yet you have a something in you lovable and worth preserving; and that, while the mass of mankind lies under this scurvy condemnation, you will scarce find one but, by some generous reading, will become to you a lesson, a model, and a noble spouse through life. So thinking, you will constantly support your own unworthiness, and easily forgive the failings of your friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1881), “Virginibus Puerisque, Part 2”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #husband #imperfection #love #marriage #partner #relationship #selfimage #spouse #wife #worthiness #unworthiness
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I not only see myself in the mirror, I feel comfortable as myself in public. This is relatively recent. Perhaps it is the HRT? Maybe it is my hair and makeup? It might actually be my dress and poise! Or is it that I only use rose colored self-delusional glasses?
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“Wait a moment,” said Winnie-the-Pooh, holding up his paw.
He sat down and thought, in the most thoughtful way he could think. Then he fitted his paw into one of the Tracks … and then he scratched his nose twice, and stood up.
“Yes,” said Winnie-the-Pooh.
“I see now,” said Winnie-the-Pooh.
“I have been Foolish and Deluded,” said he, “and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.”A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 3 “Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/80463/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #pooh #poohbear #winniethepooh #cogitation #consideration #contemplation #delusion #dolt #folly #realization #selfawareness #selfdeprecation #selfimage
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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
John Peel (b. 1954) British writer [pen names Nicholas Adams, Rick North, J.P. Trent, John Vincent]
Timewyrm: Genesys, ch. 10 [The Doctor] (1991)More info about this quote: wist.info/peel-john/4443/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnpeel #doctorwho #seventhdoctor #cleverness #ego #error #mistake #selfimage
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And be careful about calling them Common People. Nobody wants to be called Common People, especially common people.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Column (1925-06-21), “Weekly Article”More info about this quote: wist.info/rogers-will/79606/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #willrogers #commonman #commonpeople #ego #label #ordinarypeople #prestige #selfimage
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
The man who underestimates himself is perpetually being surprised by success, whereas the man who overestimates himself is just as often surprised by failure. The former kind of surprise is pleasant, the latter unpleasant. It is therefore wise to be not unduly conceited, though also not too modest to be enterprising.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 10 “Is Happiness Still Possible?” (1930)More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/795…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #overestimation #conceit #ego #expectations #humility #pride #selfconfidence #selfesteem #selfevaluation #selfimage #underestimation #motivation
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The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 113 (1955)More info about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/79459/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #dogood #doingfavors #favor #gooddeed #goodworks #selfdeprecation #selfimage #worth
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“I have been Foolish and Deluded,” said Pooh, “and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.”
“You’re the Best Bear in All the World,” said Christopher Robin soothingly.A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 3 “Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting” (1926)More info about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/2843/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #pooh #winniethepooh #poohbear #christopherrobin #reassurance #comforting #delusion #folly #friendship #limitations #praise #selfassessment #selfawareness #selfblame #selfcondemnation #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdefeating #selfdeprecating #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfimage #selfloathing #selfopinion #selfregard #selfreproach #selfrespect #selfworth #soothing #stupidity
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I had developed dysphoria because I was too feminine and wanted to appear masculine. Or had to appear masculine? Everything I wanted before, female breasts, a bigger butt, and so on suddenly bothered me. Opposite dysphoria, then?
https://medium.com/prismnpen/im-in-a-constant-physical-battle-against-being-transgender-9b46ed49a815?sk=cbef1d8c2f2111b6c58e2067025a2ff2 -
A quotation from Robert Heinlein
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. […] This symptom is especially serious in that an individual displaying it never thinks of it as a sign of ill health but as proof of his/her strength.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Friday, ch. 23 [Boss] (1983)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/heinlein-robert-a/78…
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Be not deceived: it is not that which Men believe of thee will make thee happy or miserable; but that which thou believest of thyself.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2073 (1727)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…
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A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 3 (1963)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/78…
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The people we meet are the playwrights and stage managers of our lives: they cast us in a role, and we play it whether we will or not. It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 130 (1955)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoffer-eric/78373/
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HELEN: From the moment my mother bore me I was pointed at for a freak. It’s not usual in Hellas or anywhere else for a woman to produce her young enclosed in a white shell — which is the way Leda is said to have borne me, with Zeus for my father!
[ἙΛΈΝΗ: ἆρ᾽ ἡ τεκοῦσά μ᾽ ἔτεκεν ἀνθρώποις τέρας;
γυνὴ γὰρ οὔθ᾽ Ἑλληνὶς οὔτε βάρβαρος
τεῦχος νεοσσῶν λευκὸν ἐκλοχεύεται,
ἐν ᾧ με Λήδαν φασὶν ἐκ Διὸς τεκεῖν.]Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Helen [Ἑλένη], l. 256ff (412 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1954)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/78322/
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Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
The Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 128 (1955)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoffer-eric/17022/
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