You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.
You don't see yourself in the same way other people see you.
You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.
If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.
I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.
I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.
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