Quotes About Insecurity

When jealousy rears up, it indicates that something inside of you is afraid. It's an alarm, nothing less and nothing more. Treat it as such.

there's not a single evil in the world that you cannot trace to fear. Not one.

A tu gde je strah nema ljubavi, jer uvek mrzimo ono ?ega se plašimo.

When you go out to the world because of the love that someone else has for you, you are all aglow not with your perception of reality but with the love that you have received from someone else; someone else controls the switch and when it is switched off the glow fades away.

The first reaction is one of fear. It's not that we fear the unknown. You cannot fear something that you do not know. Nobody is afraid of the unknown. What you really fear is the loss of the known. That's what you fear.

So spend some time seeing each of the things you cling to for what it really is, a nightmare that causes you excitement and pleasure on the one hand but also worry, insecurity, tension, anxiety, fear, unhappiness on the other.

An attachment, by its very nature, makes you vulnerable to emotional turmoil and is always threatening to shatter your peace.

Primero: es inútil que trates de mitigar tus sentimientos de inseguridad intentando cambiar las cosas exteriores a ti. Puede que tus esfuerzos se vean coronados por el éxito, aunque no es eso lo más frecuente; puede que consigas al menos algún alivio, pero éste no será muy duradero. No merece la pena, por tanto, que gastes tus energías y tu tiempo en mejorar tu apariencia física, en hacer más dinero o en asegurarte el amor de tus amigos.

hay personas que, a pesar de encontrarse en las mismísimas condiciones en que tú te encuentras ahora, no sienten la menor inseguridad. Esas personas existen, y seguramente conoces a alguna. Consiguientemente, el problema no depende de la realidad exterior a ti, sino de ti mismo, de tu «programación».

Tercero: debes comprender que esa «programación» te ha sido impuesta por personas inseguras que, cuando aún eras muy joven e impresionable, te enseñaron, con su comportamiento

Cuarto: siempre que te sientas inseguro acerca de lo que puede depararte el futuro, limítate simplemente a recordar que en los últimos seis o doce meses has estado igualmente inseguro acerca de los acontecimientos que habrían de producirse; y que cuando, finalmente, éstos se produjeron, te las arreglaste para dominarlos de un modo u otro, gracias a las energías

This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.

A week ago, it all seemed so secure. So settled.

There has always been a sliver of panic in him, deeply buried, when it comes to his daughter: a fear that he is no good as a father, that he is doing everything wrong. That he never quite understood the rules.

This, she realizes, is the basis of his fear, all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.

Insecure people don't get threatened by dreams; they get threatened by dreamers who move forward into those dreams.

You must control your emotions. You must control your feelings. If there is any fear or insecurity, you must destroy it before it destroys you. It is not the size or the strength of your opponent that matters. These can be measured. It is what cannot be measured...courage, determination...that count.

know I shouldn't say it in this day and age but I'm absolutely useless without a man. There isn't a moment I don't miss Charlie. I never get anything right. I can't work out the buttons on the TV remote control. Parking the car is a nightmare even though it's only a Toyota Prius and it isn't that big.

All I had, really, were vague feelings.

Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own...

I didn't believe her. There was a nervousness in her eyes. I'd seen it when she held out the telephone for Damian. She'd been afraid he was going to snatch it from her. In fact, she was probably afraid of Damian.

I felt completely out of my depth. There were so many questions I wanted to ask him but at the same time I was afraid of offending him.

Thanks to the wonderful support system provided by my father, I was never insecure about my future.

I love proving myself wrong. A lot of actors lack confidence - even if you're doing really well, you kind of feel like this might be your last job.