Quotes About Insecurity

The story doesn't begin with grown women being massacred in the workplace or in the press. It begins with innocent little girls who become convinced, for whatever reason, that the girl within them isn't good enough.

If I'm convinced that I'm not good enough, I will have a difficult time accepting someone into my life who thinks I am. It's the Groucho Marx syndrome of not wanting to like anyone who would want me in their club. The only way that I can accept someone's finding me wonderful, is if I find myself wonderful. But to the ego, self-acceptance is death.

special relationship is a relationship based on fear.

Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like us or we're afraid they will. We're afraid of failure or we're afraid of success. We're afraid of dying young or we're afraid of growing old. We're more afraid of life than we are of death.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

No saber la hora lo angustió de nuevo. A veces lo olvidaba, pero la menor inquietud, duda, zozobra, hacía que la punzante ansiedad de no saber en qué momento del día o de la noche se hallaba le produjera hielo en el corazón, la sensación de haber sido expulsado del tiempo, de vivir en un limbo donde no existían el antes, el ahora ni el después

Les hommes s'efforcent de croire en Dieu parce qu'ils n'ont pas confiance en eux-mêmes. Et l'histoire nous démontre qu'ils n'ont pas tort car jusqu'à présent nous n'avons pas été bien fiables.

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness.

We are afraid to venture into the unknown because to do so would remind us of how unsafe we once felt.

From a Buddhist perspective, there is really nothing but resistance to be analyzed; there is no true self waiting in the wings to be released. Only by revealing the insecurity can a measure of freedom be gained. When we can know our fear as fear and surround it with the patience of Buddha, we can begin to rest in our own minds and approach those to whom we would like to feel close.

To flaunt your strength is to make it your weakness.

It exasperated her sometimes. The way men could be so sure of themselves. They put words together like sheds or shelves and you could stand on them they were so solid. And those feelings which overwhelmed you in the small hours turned to smoke.

even writing this makes me feel shaky and scared, like I do when I'm standing on the top of a very tall building and there are thousands of houses and cars and people below me and my head is so full of all these things that I'm afraid that I'm going to forget to stand up straight and hang on to the rail and I'm going to fall over and be killed.

Her only worry sometimes was that she didn't look different enough, that people mistook her for part of a crowd. She'd see a girl in patterned Doc Martens or with a dyed red pixie cut and wish she had the balls.

That kind of party had always scared Daisy, the smell on your clothes the next day and something else that couldn't be washed off.

I had tried so hard to please that I never realized no one was watching.

It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it's certainty.

He suddenly began to look wretched, much as I had seen him look as a schoolboy: lonely: awkward: unpopular: odd; no longer the self-confident businessman into which he had grown. His face now brought back the days when one used to watch him plodding off through the drizzle to undertake the long, solitary runs across the dismal fields beyond the sewage farms: runs which were to train him for teams in which he was never included.

It is, after all, envy rather than jealousy that causes most of the trouble in married life.

For most people, the fear of loss is much greater than the desire for gain.

when you seek Significance, you're always comparing yourself with someone else. And there's always someone bigger, taller, stronger, faster, richer, funnier, younger, more handsome, more beautiful, with a bigger yacht, a nicer car, a nicer home.