Quotes About Insecurity

The bottom line is, if we feel like we're losing something, we avoid it; we won't do it.

Para la mayoría de la gente, el temor a la pérdida es mucho mayor que el deseo de ganar.

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

I daresay I am an idiot," said Miss Macnulty, resuming her novel.

Alas! — she told herself, admitting in her misery all her weakness, — alas, she had no mother. She had gloried in her independence, and this had come of it! She had scorned the prudence of Lady Macleod, and her scorn had brought her to this pass!

She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good. Had

Mr. Low, having not unnaturally been jealous that a young whipper-snapper of a pupil

What are you afraid of, Lou?" "Afraid? I'm not afraid of anything," Lou

I saw in myself a leader who was so sure of the brilliance of his own ideas that he couldn't allow brilliance in anyone else's; a leader who felt he was so 'enlightened' that he needed to see workers negatively in order to prove his enlightenment; a leader so driven to be the best that he made sure no one else could be as good as he was.

Lea: I hate the world so much right now that I'm so scared of that day when the world starts hating me back for it. Greg: To hell with the world, Lea!! Fuck it if the world doesn't need you!! I need you!!

Jealousy is a terrible thing. "It doth mock the meat it feeds upon" is an understatement. Jealousy is completely consuming, totally irrational, and absolutely debilitating. The most wonderful people in the world are nothing but raging animals when trapped in the throes of jealousy.

Max was nervous long before Dr. Blue started to open what Max called the "bug jar.

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes.

It should worry you to walk around naked…with so little to show." – Tristan "I'm in no mood to watch you two play mine's bigger." – Evalle "It's not necessary. I already know which one's bigger." – Tristan "Must be true what they say about the strides they're making with implants." – Storm

Just that sometimes we let other people treat us wrongly because we want to be loved and accepted so badly that we'd do anything for it. It hurts when you know that no matter how much you try, how much you want it, they can't love or accept you as you are. Then you hate all that time you wasted trying to please them and wonder what about you is so awful that they couldn't at least pretend to love you.

What's it really like to always be the prettiest person in a room? Dos it mean you're always acting as if in a play, because no one stops looking at you?' 'Life is a play, isn't it?

I feel stupid when people say 'You? You are so brave,' because I don't feel brave, I don't even know what brave is.

I am like a lifeguard with the terrible, secret knowledge that he does not himself know how to swim.

There are those, too, who befriend the weak because they feel themselves unworthy of the strong. Because they cannot bring themselves to honour abilities greater than their own.

Paul resented this historic position she had established for herself in the momentum of his life, and because of it would have liked to see her broken.

Do you always go where you're not wanted?" Eleanor smiled placidly. "I've never been wanted anywhere," she said.

Nothing irrevocable had yet been spoken, but there was only the barest margin of safety left them; each of them moving delicately along the outskirts of an open question, and, once spoken, such a question - as Do you love me? - could never be answered or forgotten.