Quotes About Insecurity

buying him clothes to improve his self-image • finding a therapist for him and begging him to go • financing expensive hobbies to help him use his time better • going through disruptive geographic relocations because "he's not happy here" • giving him half or all of our property and possessions so he won't feel inferior to us • providing him with a place to live so that he can feel secure

Nuestra propia necesidad de amor, atención, cariño y seguridad quedó insatisfecha mientras fingíamos ser más poderosas y menos temerosas, más adultas y menos necesitadas, de lo que realmente nos sentíamos.

As you rise toward virtuosity, you'll become anxious about failure, threatened by a concern of not being good enough and insecure about blazing new paths. So, your amygdala—an almond-shaped mass of gray matter in the brain that detects fear—gets all fired up. And you begin to tear down the productivity you've built up. We all have a subconcious saboteur that lurks within our weakest selves, you know?

The beliefs that disturb you, the feelings that threaten you, the projects that unnerve you and the unfoldments of your talents that the insecure part of you is resisting are precisely where you need to go to.

most of us share the same fears: a fear of rejection, a fear of failure, a fear of not being good enough, a fear of being alone, a fear of losing control and a fear of success.

Criticism is the defense reaction that scared people use to protect themselves against change.

The closer you get to your genius, the more you'll face the sabotage of your fears

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate." —Steven Pressfield

Sascha looked torn. Should she cram my head full of newfound terror that the world would reject me, or let me wander into the big, scary out-there, like a naive lamb prancing to the slaughter?

I see people walking, he said.—Just during the day, like. I see them and they all seem to know where they're going. And I always think they're keeping the secret from me. Where they're going Ã¢â'¬â€œ where they know they're going. I've always felt that. Left out, I suppose. Excluded

Comme jaloux, je souffre quatre fois : parce que je suis jaloux, parce que je me reproche de l'être, parce que je crains que ma jalousie ne blesse l'autre, parce que je me laisse assujettir à une banalité : je souffre d'être exclu, d'être agressif, d'être fou et d'être commun.

Jack lacked the nerve to contest his terrifying, distant father.

It was symptomatic of Jack's humility and his insecurity that when he made an exciting discovery in his laboratory, he chalked it off it to luck.

His insecurities only worsened as he had more to lose.

Unlike his father, however, his self-confidence was a fragile bloom, easily crushed.

People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.

I know," I said. "You already don't respect me because you saw me naked.

That kid was every kind of bully. He had a grudge against anyone with one brain cell more. Which was a lot

Besides, how could I trust them, when I couldn't even trust myself?

The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.

we are highly invested in feeling different from one another—and superior—no matter how flimsy the grounds for our sense of superiority, and no matter how self-sabotaging that may end up being. You

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Colui che più possiede, è colui che più ha paura di perdere.

It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.