Think aloud
“Your perception of me is a reflection of you; my reaction to you is an awareness of me.” – Coach Bobbi
Tell me how many times have you struggled to accept other people’s opinions about yourself? Be honest and admit that you didn’t even try doing certain things because others told you that you wouldn’t succeed.
This happened to me quite a few times and it made me wonder why we’re so heavily influenced by the opinions of those who don’t really care about us. The abovementioned quote is so powerful because it strikes through the heart of perception.
It also encourages self-criticism, self-love, and a deeper understanding of how human relationships work.
To help you better understand what I mean by these words, you have to start with yourself.
Your early childhood, the different people you met throughout your life, going to different schools, all your physical attributes, as well as your character – these all shaped you into the person you are today.
The way your mind perceives the world and everything around you is a direct consequence of what makes you who you are.
That’s why it’s difficult to meet a person who has the same way of thinking as you have because their experiences and values are different from yours.
And in some way, that’s a good thing. By hearing what other people think about a particular matter, you grow as a person and shape and adapt your visions as time goes by.
But sometimes, people’s perceptions can be unclear or even downright destructive.
Your world views, attitudes, and beliefs are a part of how you approach new things in life. How you’re going to react and what you’re going to say to the other person is directly connected with your core values and mental outlook.
And usually, when you meet someone new, you’re unable to see who they are.
Everything they do or say first goes through the apparatus of your own experiences and the final product or opinion you get in your mind is already influenced by who you are as a person.
That’s why you can never say that a certain someone is untainted and pure, because that’s not true. On one side, your perception is governed by the input of your own mind, and on the other, by that which you actually receive from the other person.
This is why sometimes others may trigger certain emotions or memories in you that are part of your history.
Our brain is a very complex machine that receives and stores millions of pieces of information every millisecond. Various external factors can influence the way you perceive others. How your day went before meeting this person or the kind of mood you were in when you first spoke to them – these can alter your image of the person.
Now, let’s turn the tables around.
So, if someone has a negative opinion of you, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re right and you’re wrong. It’s only proof that they carrying a lot of negative energy inside them that influences what they see in you.
We change our personalities, values, and lifestyle based on what others think about us because it’s our innate desire to be accepted by them. We are worried that some may see us as outcasts.
This is why the quote, “Your perception of me is a reflection of you…” says a lot about the way the world works.
You have to set yourself free from the shackles of outside opinions because that’s the only way you can show your authentic self. After all, you can’t do much to improve what others may think of you, so why bother putting in all your effort only to be rejected by others?
Many people have a tough time knowing their worth. That’s why I made a list of popular quotes to help you with just that.
Quotes similar to “your perception of me is a reflection of you”
1. “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
– Oscar Wilde
2. “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”
– Richard P. Feynman
3. “When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them.”
– Marilyn Monroe
4. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
– Albert Einstein
5. “Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.”
– Cynthia Kersey
6. “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
– Charlotte Brontë
7. “So many people along the way, whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can’t be done. But all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. And you reach.”
– Michael Phelps
8. “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.”
– John Lennon
9. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
– Steve Jobs
10. “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
– Virginia Woolf
11. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
– Dr. Seuss
12. “No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.”
– Laurell K. Hamilton
13. “Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
– Lao Tzu
14. “I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
– Michel de Montaigne
15. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
– Suzy Kassem
16. “Some people say, ‘Never let them see you cry.’ I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
– Tina Fey
17. “There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.”
– Marianne Williamson
18. “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.”
– Barbara De Angelis
19. “You deserve someone who makes you feel like the otherworldly creature you are. Yourself.”
– Amanda Lovelace
20. “We do not have the right to feel helpless. We must help ourselves. After destiny has delivered what it delivers, we are responsible for our lives.”
– Cheryl Strayed
21. “When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits–anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”
– Kim McMillen
22. “It’s really about changing the conversation. It’s not about perfection. And it’s about purpose. We have to care about our bodies and what we put in them. Women have to take the time to focus on our mental health—take time for self, for the spiritual, without feeling guilty or selfish. The world will see you the way you see you, and treat you the way you treat yourself.”
– Beyoncé
23. “I used to be bound by people who placed limits on what they thought I could do. Through that, I learned that if you want something, you have to be the one to go out and do it. If you don’t ask for something, you’re not going to get it.”
– Ashley Graham
24. “You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
– Olin Miller
25. “Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.”
– Wilfred Peterson
26. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
– Rumi
27. “In stressful times, it’s okay to not be perfect. Cut yourself some slack. Because right now, you might not be your best self, but you are growing and you are trying your best. And that is good enough.”
– Ashley Hetherington
28. “Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Fall in love with the path of deep healing. And fall in love with becoming the best version of yourself but with patience, with compassion, and respect to your own journey.”
– S. McNutt
Amazing “stand tall and always be proud of yourself” quotes
1. “It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; it’s the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.”
– David Allan Coe
2. “Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. And I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.”
– Amy Poehler
4. “He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than anyone else he knows.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
– Aristotle
6. “There is nothing more attractive than confidence. Once she sees her own beauty, everyone else will.”
– Habeeb Akande
7. “Don’t worry about who doesn’t like you, who has more, or who’s doing what.”
– Erma Bombeck
8. “Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
– Rumi
9. “The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.”
– David Icke
10. “The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started.”
– Israelmore Ayivor
11. “Stand tall, stand proud. Know that you are unique and magnificent. You do not need the approval of others.”
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
12. “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
– Sigmund Freud
13. “Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own.”
– Angelina Jolie
14. “Grow taller than your failures; never give up. People who are content with where they are will never be passionate about making greater accomplishments in their lives.”
– Israelmore Ayivor
15. “Well, laddie, if you’ve let an old buzzard like me hurt your confidence, you couldn’t have had much in the first place.”
– Tamora Pierce
16. “Most people just want to see you fall, that’s more reason to stand tall.”
– Emma Michelle
17. “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
– Marie Curie
18. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”
– Vincent van Gogh
19. “Self-love, self-respect, self-worth… There is a reason they all start with ‘self.’ You cannot find them in anyone else.”
– Unknown
20. “Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you’re worthy of the trip.”
– Glenn Beck
Deep thoughts quotes about creating yourself
1. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
2. “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
– Paulo Coelho
3. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
– Confucius
4. “There are three constants in life… change, choice, and principles.”
– Stephen Covey
5. “For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.”
– Victor E. Frankl
6. “The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.”
– David Viscott
7. “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”
– Nelson Henderson
8. “You can never plan the future by the past.”
– Edmund Burke
9. “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
10. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
11. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
– John F. Kennedy
12. “The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.”
– Tony Robbins
13. “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
– Roy T. Bennett
14. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
– Robert Frost
15. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
16. “Lost time is never found again.”
– Benjamin Franklin
17. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
18. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
19. “Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back to life.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
20. “Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.”
– Leo O’Donovan
21. “It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
22. “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley
23. “Failure is not the opposite of success. It is a part of success.”
– Unknown
24. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
– Will Rogers
25. “Your life would never have a meaning if you don’t have a goal or purpose.”
– Sunday Adelaja
Inspiring quotes about letting self-love be your superpower
1. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
– Abraham Lincoln
2. “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. “Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
– Helen Keller
4. “Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.”
– Diana, Princess of Wales
5. “We just need to be kinder to ourselves. If we treated ourselves the way we treated our best friend, can you imagine how much better off we would be?”
– Meghan Markle
6. “Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”
– Thomas Jefferson
7. “Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.”
– John D. Rockefeller
8. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
– Maya Angelou
9. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.”
– Harvey Fierstein
10. “When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”
– Jean Shinoda Bolen
11. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
– Mark Twain
12. “My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose–somehow we win out.”
– Ronald Reagan
13. “Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
– Henry Van Dyke
14. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
– Shannon L. Alder
15. “If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.”
– Wayne Dyer
16. “Each person must live their life as a model for others.”
– Rosa Parks
17. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
– Lucille Ball
18. “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
– Sophia Loren
19. “Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”
– Vivian Komori
20. “My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg
