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There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.
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self-perception
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Jacqueline Carey |
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"What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's."
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honesty
self-justification
self-perception
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David Mitchell |
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He was too many things at once - a boy, a man, and everything in between - and the differing parts of himself seldom came into balance. She found him attractive in that way. Yet the perception saddened her: she herself wasn't too many things, but too few.
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people
self-perception
description
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Stephen R. Donaldson |
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Secularity is a way of being dependent on the responses of our milieu. The secular or false self is the self which is fabricated, as Thomas Merton says, by social compulsions. 'Compulsive' is indeed the best adjective for the false self. It points to the need for ongoing and increasing affirmation. Who am I? I am the one who is liked, praised, admired, disliked, hated or despised. Whether I am a pianist, a businessman or a minister, what matters is how I am perceived by my world. If being busy is a good thing, then I must be busy. If having money is a sign of real freedom, then I must claim my money. If knowing many people proves my importance, I will have to make the necessary contacts. The compulsion manifests itself in the lurking fear of failure and the steady urge to prevent this by gathering more of the same - more work, more money, more friends.
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worldliness
self-perception
perception
self-esteem
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Henri J.M. Nouwen |
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Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.
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literature
self-perception
conventional-wisdom
legacy
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Harold Bloom |
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Students usually don't refer to themselves as nerds until someone else accuses them of being one.
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self-perception
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Alexandra Robbins |