Quotes About Insecurity

Specifically, one whose life is ruled and dictated by dependency needs suffers from a psychiatric disorder to which we ascribe the diagnostic name "passive dependent personality disorder." It is perhaps the most common of all psychiatric disorders. People with this disorder, passive dependent people, are so busy seeking to be loved that they have no energy left to love.

But while all fear is not laziness, much fear is exactly that. Much of our fear is fear of a change in the status quo, a fear that we might lose what we have if we venture forth from where we are now. In the section on discipline I spoke of the fact

To the child, abandonment by its parents is the equivalent of death.

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.

How can someone so loved look so constantly for reasons to be unworthy of it?

Ah! were you careful to tie me to the cliff of your frivolity, your indifference, or your agitation?

Tão pouco tempo? Sim, tão pouco tempo, dez minutos. Os meus ciúmes eram intensos, mas curtos; com pouco derrubaria tudo, mas com o mesmo pouco ou menos reconstruiria o céu, a terra e as estrelas.

The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books, Miranda said. It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.

I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

She felt that she was being measured and found wanting.

She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...

she was very frightened because the world had changed all of a sudden and it wasn't hers anymore and she didn't know who owned it.

I don't know. Maybe the fellow from my own home town. He's very good looking, Stevie.' Kit said this partly to put the glamorous Frankie in the position of knowing that Stevie was out of bounds, partly to convince herself. In her heart she knew that Stevie was cheap and obvious.

your looks—that

She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married.

What is embarrassment but a relative of fear? You've been seen—caught—at being imperfect.

Our ignorance of the unfamiliar is what fuels our fear.

Who taught you to hate yourself?

If you know, you are smart then never try to negotiate your intelligence for the inept.

Some people talk about other people's failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.

An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud.

Jealousy often turns people into irresponsible storytellers.