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Quotes About Insecurity

That conflict comes from rage, rage comes from fear, and fear comes from lack of faith. That
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Both greed and outrage stem from insecurity; insecurity is the result of a poor understanding of, and a lack of faith in, one's true nature and the true nature of the world around us. The Veda says that as long as we do not accept life for what it is, as long as we try to control and change things, there will always be conflict. Conflict ends when we realize that beyond tangible material reality, there is intangible spiritual reality.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
The greatest human fear is validation.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
In the Ramayana, Rakshasas represent a way of life where all behaviour is instinctual and self-indulgent, governed by fear and insecurity. Rishis represent the opposite way of life, where all instincts, be they sexual or violent, are regulated for the benefit of the world. Ram
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
From desire come all problems. And all desires come from fear.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Insecure men make terrible warriors.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Animals fight to defend their bodies. Humans curse to defend their imagination of themselves. This imagined notion of who we are, and how others are supposed to see us, is called aham. Aham constantly seeks validation from the external world. When that is not forthcoming it becomes insecure. Aham makes humans accumulate things; through things we hope people will look upon us as we imagine ourselves.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
~ Diana Black
It was me—the weak-willed, easily seduced, insecure girl I'd become. I was the obstacle I'd be carrying around with me for the rest of my life.
~ Diane Chamberlain
Boys were so proud - you always had to let them think they were good at things.
~ Diane Zahler
I definitely wasn't cool in high school. I really wasn't. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things.
~ Dianna Agron
He doubted there was much of a future for him after this.
~ Dick Cluster
Has the community served to make individuals free, strong, and mature, or has it made them insecure and dependent? Has it taken them by the hand for a while so that they would learn again to walk by themselves, or has it made them anxious and unsure?
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.
~ Dionne Warwick
You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.
~ Dita Von Teese
The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
~ Djuna Barnes
The heart of the jealous knows the best and the most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections. Fancy gallops to take part in that duel, unconstrained by any certain articulation of the laws of that unseen game.
~ Djuna Barnes
Ne veruj ni u šta što se na strahu temelji.
~ Dobrica ?osi?
Sumnja mi preseca zalet, priznajem.
~ Dobrica ?osi?
If you study a lot because you are worried that others will think badly of you for being ignorant and you'll feel stupid, this is a serious mistake.
~ Dogen Zenji
She is well prepared, but she doubts herself. That is part of the human condition and she has succumbed more than expected to the program of fear.
~ Dolores Cannon
The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself.
~ Doménico Cieri Estrada
Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.
~ Don DeLillo
Perhaps what he feared most was happening–his imagination had abandoned him, the well had gone dry.
~ Don Lee