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Many people have a distorted picture of themselves, and look at their capacities and endowments in just the opposite way from the man who bragged about his ugly wife. They have a tendency to picture themselves as twisted images in the Picasso tradition, even if they are quite attractive. Far from being a modest and charming trait, this can be ruinous to the personality. Just as in the previous chapter, this kind of feeling starts back in childhood and hangs on through adulthood. To be loved by people or to be loved by a person, you must necessarily love yourself in the finest sense of the word. But what happens is that we are often knocked about in our formative years like a tennis ball, in between the progressive and the moralist, and we seem to have no basis on which to make any kind of intelligent appraisal of ourselves. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)