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Quotes About Insecurity

When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe…you shouldn't let that person go just because you're afraid.
~ Megan Hart
When I was younger, I never laughed. I was always sour. If I look at pictures of me from the past, I never see a smile. I think it came out of my insecurity. I had a lot of complexes.
~ Giorgio Armani
People say, like, "I love when you smile because part of your mouth goes up," then I never organically smile again.
~ Sarah Silverman
I'm just saying, 'Hey, throw me a bone. How about a smile, cute t-shirt? Look at me.' Nothing - unless it's a turn to their friends to go, 'Hey, why is that weird guy looking at us?'
~ Marc Maron
I've always been a bit insecure about my smile, but its days like these where all I wanna do is smile.
~ Nick Jonas
I hate my smile. I always have, even in my school pictures when I was a little kid.
~ Kenny Chesney
My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.
~ Stephanie Perkins
I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
~ Taylor Swift
I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
~ Taylor Swift
Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don´t do it
~ Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
~ Thomas Hobbes
You want society to accept you; but you can't even accept yourself.
~ Michael Fassbender
In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.
~ James Purdy
If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.
~ zweig stefan ii
Um aspecto muito visível do desaparecimento das velhas garantias é a nova fragilidade dos laços humanos. A fragilidade e transitoriedade dos laços pode ser um preço inevitável do direito de os indivíduos perseguirem seus objetivos individuais, mas não pode deixar de ser, simultaneamente, um obstáculo dos mais formidáveis para perseguir eficazmente esses objetivos -- e para a coragem necessária para persegui-los.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
In the world of structural unemployment no one can feel truly secure. Secure jobs in secure companies seem to be the yarn of grandfathers' nostalgia;
~ Zygmunt Bauman
The desire to demonize others is based on the ontological uncertainties.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Mientras que los beneficiarios de nuestra peligrosamente desequilibrada, inestable y poco equitativa globalización consideran su libertad sin freno el mejor medio para alcanzar su propia seguridad, sus víctimas directas o colaterales sospechan que su mayor obstáculo para ser libres (y para hacer uso de cualquier libertad que se les pudiera conceder) radica en la inseguridad, que viven como algo horrible y lamentable.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Con l'attiva cooperazione di governi e di altri personaggi pubblici che trovano nell'opera di appoggio e fomentazione del pregiudizio comune gli unici strumenti sostitutivi di una politica tesa ad affrontare le cause reali dell'incertezza esistenziale che ossessiona i loro elettori, i "rifugiati" [...] sostituiscono streghe maligne, fantasmi di malfattori impenitenti e altri spiritelli e spauracchi vari che popolano le leggende metropolitane.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.
~ Adam Ant
You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are...
~ Adam Rex
A man who needs a mirror is looking for something.
~ Adriana Trigiani