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Quotes About Insecurity

I say it cause I'm a fool, I say. I say it cause I'm jealous of you. I say it cause you do what I can't. What that? she say. Fight. I say.
~ Alice Walker
He said, "I had to dance with all the girls who didn't have a partner. I'd be the youngest one, and I was like a foot shorter, so I was staring straight at all these eighth-grade breasts." "Sh!" "What? It was like the highlight of my childhood.
~ Allegra Goodman
Smoking creates an artificial feeling of insecurity and emptiness.
~ Allen Carr
Smokers suffer the empty insecure feeling of nicotine withdrawal their entire smoking lives. Nonsmokers never suffer it
~ Allen Carr
The only pleasure or crutch smokers receive when they light up is the perceived relief of the empty, insecure feeling of the body withdrawing from nicotine that nonsmokers don't suffer from anyway. 2. Each cigarette, far from relieving the empty feeling, actually causes it, so the perception of a pleasure or crutch is an illusion. It's like putting on tight shoes to get the pleasure or relief of removing them.
~ Allen Carr
ONE OF THE REASONS I'm good at being a ghostwriter is that I've been a chameleon for as long as I can remember. I become whatever people want me to be. It's almost effortless now—sussing out what others want or need and then transforming. Who am I, truly? I have no idea.
~ Amanda Eyre Ward
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.
~ Ambrose Bierce
JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Threats for tomorrow don't cut very deep when today is so damn threatening.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I daresay that's a better-looking man there. A cleverer man.' He ran one hand through his short dark hair, frowning at his reflection. 'Not sure if I trust that bastard, though.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Cuando no se puede tener algo, se quiere. Cuando se tiene, de repente brotan las dudas. Y luego, cuando parece que se puede perder, se descubre que se necesita más que nunca. El
~ Joe Abercrombie
It was difficult to maintain any sense of superiority in the face of his utter dependence on other people.
~ Joe Abercrombie
She brushed the tip of his nose with a finger. "Oh my poor baby, are you scared of him?" He rolled away from her onto his back. "A little. Everyone should be at least a little scared of Bremer dan Gorst.
~ Joe Abercrombie
That look. Little bit hungry. Little bit scared.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Besides, a man who's moved by grovelling will never get enough grovelling for his taste.
~ Joe Abercrombie
And the more shrivelled the man, the more swollen his pretensions must
~ Joe Abercrombie
A man with a balding pink head and a heavy chain of office started towards him. One weak chin had clearly not been weak enough, and he had opted for several spread across his fur-trimmed collar.
~ Joe Abercrombie
A man who's moved by grovelling will never get enough grovelling for his taste.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Fear is recognition of loss of control, and it subsides when control returns," he says.
~ Joe Camp
You might use your enemies to reaffirm your addiction to hatred, your parents to reaffirm your addiction to guilt, your Facebook feed to reaffirm your addiction to insecurity, the news to reaffirm your addiction to anger, your ex to reaffirm your addiction to resentment, and your relationship with money to reaffirm your addiction to lack.
~ Joe Dispenza
The Legacy of Negative Emotions As we keep making stress hormones, we create a host of highly addictive negative emotions, including anger, hostility, aggression, competition, hatred, frustration, fear, anxiety, jealousy, insecurity, guilt, shame, sadness, depression, hopelessness, and powerlessness,
~ Joe Dispenza
Fear of the self... of both what we show the world on the outside and that which we know, ourselves, to truly be on the inside, can be a paralyzing notion.
~ Joe Harris
Terry was cool, cooler then Ig would ever be, but he was afraid. His fear narrowed his vision so that he couldn't see anything except what he stood to lose.
~ Joe Hill
One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously insecure.
~ Joe Hill