Quotes About Insecurity

Las personas creen que aman pero en realidad están enganchadas en su necesidad de poseer a otro. Como si dijeran: "Te amo mientras estés al lado mío, pero si te vas seguramente te odiaré".

Celar es sostener la creencia de que mi amado le da a otra persona lo que solamente yo tengo derecho a querer de él. O como dice Ambrose Bierce en su Diccionario del diablo: "Celar es temer perder a alguien, que si uno perdiera por lo que teme perderlo... no valdría la pena haberlo conservado".

la mayoría de la gente no se preocupa por el tema de si quiere o no, sólo se preocupa sobre si es querido y si se le demuestra el amor.

Dicen que soy un gran escritor. Agradezco esa curiosa opinión, pero no la comparto. El día de mañana, algunos lúcidos la refutarán fácilmente y me tildarán de impostor o chapucero o de ambas cosas a la vez.

I know very little of my own work by heart, because I don't like what I write. In fact, I find myself personally expressed far better in the writings of other poets than in my own, because I know all my mistakes—I know all the chinks and all the padding, I know that a particular line is weak, and so on. I read other poets in a different way; I don't look too closely at them.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Desperately brave generals are often frightened of mice. Sometimes they even boast of their little weakness.

When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else.

Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.

But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

And Teddy worried lots about The fact that he was rather stout. He thought: "If only I were thin! But how does anyone begin?

It is hard to be brave,' said Piglet, sniffing slightly, 'when you're only a Very Small Animal.

Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.

At least I've had a man," Leah snapped. "And I've got a college degree and own a business, while you're serving coffee at your aunt's coffee shop. You want to continue keeping score of who's doing what, go right ahead, but I've got work to do.

I don't think. I can't allow myself the luxury. I've lived with fear since I was a child.

99 percent secure is 100 percent insecure.

The tendency to compare oneself with others further lowers self-esteem. Every encounter with another may be turned into a negative self-evaluation.

It is impossible for a person to be loved totally, at all times by all his friends. The degree of love and acceptance fluctuates considerably.

Isn't it amazing how one small little guy can make us feel so bad about ourselves, despite the thoughts and adjustments that have gotten us to the places we are in our lives?

The Islamic world is passing through a most devastating period of transition. A history of economic and scientific change which in Europe took five hundred years, is, in the Muslim world, being squeezed into a couple of generations. Such a transition period…makes human beings very insecure. They look around for something to hold onto, that will give them an identity. In our case, that something is usually Islam. [Islamic Spirituality: The Forgotten Revolution]

About eighty to ninety per cent of the population must be rated about as high in ego-security as the most secure individuals in our society, who comprise perhaps five or ten per cent at most.

Envy Is Behind Flattery.

The price of deceit is to feel like a cockroach.

Fear is contempt, whether the fearful know it or don't.