Jerry Spinelli Quotes

Sometimes we become bound by other people's thoughts because we are not sure about ourselves.

I spent my entire childhood going 'look at me, look at me, look at me,' before realising I needed someone to look at me for more than just what I was showing off for.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

It's not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you're a fake, that's tougher to live with.

Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.

Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down.

I don't really read that much stuff about myself anyways, because I feel as though you then develop this mind-set of just making sure other people would approve of your decisions.

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

Social man lives constantly outside himself.

Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.

Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.

If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that youre living for yourself, not other people.

Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

I don't care what people think of me or for what reason they think of me. I don't feel like I don't know who I am to the degree that I have to change my hair to create a new me.

No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.

Don't allow the approval and attention of others to destroy you.

Many people allow their need for other people's approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.

I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.