Quotes About Insecurity

My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up.

I feel like she could drown me in a spoonful of water or crush me with her fingernail clippings. I realize I have no chance.

the feeling of being ugly in the body that is probably the most beautiful you will ever have

People are fakers--that's all we do. Can you think of anything you do that's not done for the precise reason of pretending to be something you're afraid you're not?

Secretly we fear ourselves, not the fear itself.

You're welcome to join us again sometime," Bella said.... "Right. Well, I don't know." Sam looked at the ground. scuffing one boot in the dirt. "I'm usually not very good company." "I'm hanging out with a teenager and a temperamental cat." Bella said with a small smile. "The bar is set very low around here.

My mother's words are my mirror. My laptop is my veil of shame. I hide in it all the time.

We don't want to depend on things that might let us down.

So far as I know, no one has ever died because they gave a poor performance. The terror that appears so frighteningly real diminishes under closer scrutiny. Of course it is sad to do poor work. But then, we inevitably do a lot of bad work and we all have to deal with that.

I had turned myself inside out working on the house, and had come to love it; at least, I supposed I loved it. Maybe it wasn't love so much as a fear of losing everything I'd accomplished. I was afraid to let go.

Attachment to money will always create insecurity no matter how much money you have in the bank.

The ego wants to acquire things out of insecurity, out of a sense of lack. Remind yourself that everything comes and goes except the soul. It's from the soul that a person gains a sense of inner fulfillment. The soul lacks nothing and therefore has no anxiety about the outside world: gain is not a need, loss is not a threat.

poder basado en el ego sólo durará tanto como esas cosas duren. Tan pronto como el título, el trabajo y el dinero se vayan, así se irá el poder.

and dreaming about tomorrow was pure escapism from the pain we fear today. Note: from the introduction written by Chopra in The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts.

No external experience will support us, because the flux of events is inescapable. Note: from the introduction written by Chopra in The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts.

I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

How am I going to manage? I'm never going to earn enough to support them. And a partner—ha! Who'd want to marry me, pregnant with somebody else's babies? Two of them! Nobody's going to want me." "Jade. That's not true." Twins.

Cody tossed the ball to Ryan and draped his arm across Jade's shoulder. Daniel fought the urge to go knock it off. She smiled up at Cody. The look she gave him cut right through Daniel. He took in Cody's scruffy goatee, his office attire, his slight build. Was that the kind of man who appealed to Jade?

Our doubts are traitors," she penned for the editorial page of her new endeavor. "And make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

As with all great natural beauties, she simultaneously doesn't feel attractive and frets about losing her looks. She once flew to London and spent two hundred and fifty quid having her hair dyed the same colour as it was when she left.

Beautiful women like Julia have a hard hand to play, so much is projected on to them, they get bulldozed all the time. I think I wanted to say that I cared what she thought and maybe have her admire my trousers again. I think I had a little crush on her.

I'm a talentless but popular young singer and I have the feeling someone is watching me. I use the term loosely because I have few feelings, and even they're too simple, like primary colors.

I'm a nice person. I'm just stupid to want people to like me.