Quotes About Insecurity

You fear both strength and weakness, both power and lack of power.

You fear to be in need—and to have your need answered. As do I.

Hay dos tipos de personas que te van a decir que tú no puedes lograrlo: aquellos que tienen miedo de intentarlo y aquellos que tienen miedo que tengas éxito. RAY GOFORTH, ESCRITOR

Our freedom has been taken away because we thought that we couldn't be free unless we were perfect.

Personality freezes us in a safe and secure pattern of being that we probably finished making up somewhere in junior high school. Most of our "permanent" personality was shaped from fear: fear of embarrassment, fear of losing face, fear of appearing uncool.

TRAVIS: I never said I like boys! GORDO: Ever beat off to Penthouse? TRAVIS: No. GORDO: Ever collect baseball cards? TRAVIS: No. GORDO: How old is Barbra Streisand? TRAVIS: 36. Three weeks ago. GORDO:What do you need—a fucking blueprint?

When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.

Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man's failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

She has simply never quite learned to walk or hold herself comfortably

She knows that she needs new friends but introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness.

She has simply never quite learned to walk or hold herself comfortably, which makes her come off as an attractive wallflower.

If we are afraid of being rejected by others, we see signs of imminent rejection everywhere. We know that buying into that fear will not liberate us, but the possibility of rejection is so fear-inducing that it seems like a violation of basic logic not to focus on it.

Now let's look at the commitmentphobic's job pattern. Basically, he can't bear to feel trapped there either.

Mr. Rogers might have liked me just the way I am, but I certainly don't.

Violence is a problem not of too little self-esteem but of too much, particularly when it is unearned.

The monsters in my head are scared of love.

I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

There's always a threat surrounding the things you love

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

When I look in the mirror, I know I'm looking at someone who isn't sure she deserves to be loved at all.

Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.