Others' Perceptions Quotes

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

I am not defined by somebody's comments or an article or somebody's angst about me or their anxiety about me or what is being said about me on social media.

You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.

There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.