Quotes About Insecurity

I can't say I was happy with your mother. I can't say I enjoyed almost twenty years of being judged by her and always found wanting.

I remember when I was growing up, I always wore glasses and so if I was on-stage or just being able to move around playing sports, I was never really able to because I had glasses holding me back. Wearing contacts has just been very helpful.

addition, it's often hard for fathers to understand how deeply a daughter's perception of her own appearance influences her perception of her own worthiness, health, or morality.

He handles his conflicts by denying that they even exist. He is not in touch with his feelings and essentially is not comfortable with himself. He has only an authoritarian image of himself as the machismo type of male.

It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.

I was a shy kid and I was afraid what i said sounded stupid, so I hardly ever saud anything. I was the third wheel. Fifth wheel? I was the fucking wheel you didn't really need, but I still hung around. I thought maybe my silence would one day impress somebody. As of yet, it hadn't done much for me.

The last four days where everything has finally made some sense. And why is she so ready to throw this away? Because. Because eventually every relationship she's been in has turned to shit. Eventually she ends up screwing everything up. So maybe it's better to leave now before people's feelings get hurt.

Neck touching takes place when there is emotional discomfort, doubt, or insecurity.

the only thing you are sure of is that you aren't sure of anything any more.

Deep down I think I may be just like everyone else. And do you know what, Harry?" "No sir." "That bothers me.

I d-duh-don't know wh-why you even b-buh -bother b-buh-because in s-six y-yuh-years y-you're g-guh-going to be j-juh-just l-like—""Don't say that."Something inside me went cold. "I'm never going to be like him.

Who told you that something was wrong with you?

I have a friend who puts me to shame in the way he is so romantic with his wife. He plans big weekend getaways with her. He writes beautiful poetry to her. He'll go on for hours about how beautiful she is in their conversations. I want to tell him, "Would you quit doing that? You're making me look bad." But I've learned I'm not Romeo. I'm Joel- eo .

Never sure, Lisbeth," said Styx, backing away to consider her work. "Certainty is a sign of inferior intellect.

Maybe because when you feel like nothing, you can't believe someone who's everything could possibly see the real you.

What I like best about this is not seeing you naked, love," Marcus said. He began to massage the bar of soap in the washcloth, creating a rich lather. "Though you are quite beautiful. What I like is knowing Josh is kneeling here beside you and cannot see you.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

The Italian philosopher Paolo Virno says we have moved from having a "proletariat"—a solid block of manual workers with jobs—to a "precariat," a shifting mass of chronically insecure people who don't know whether they will have any work next week and may never have a stable job.

The vitally important corollary is that evolution shaped us not only to feel bad in isolation, but to feel insecure." It's a beautiful theory.

I had learned there is overwhelming evidence that depression, anxiety, and addiction are responses to deep social forces that are rising around us. For example: the less control you have over your work, the more likely you are to despair. Or to name another: as your society becomes more unequal, you are more likely to feel insecure and humiliated, and therefore more likely to become depressed or anxious.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Ich bin nicht nur bei jedem Mädchen, das ich liebte, eifersüchtig gewesen, sondern auch bei jeder andern, wenn sie nur hübsch war.

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.