Quotes About Insecurity

If you are preparing for an important meeting or event, for instance, you often fantasize about everything that could possibly go wrong beforehand. This is basically just an anxious mind generating a negative, insecure, and incapable image of itself. With visualization, the very space of our imagination, often dominated by fantasies of the future and nightmares of the past, could be converted into a kind of mindfully creative space, a kind of movie studio that actually benefits sentient beings.

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

My fear of abandonment is exceeded only by my terror of intimacy.

Once launched in the dizzy path of jealousy, lovers invariably give full sway to their imaginations and entertain the wildest ideas.

Such insinuated insecurities need to be confronted directly and plainly. It is not possible to drift unconsciously from faith to perdition.

A common but futile strategy for achieving joy is trying to eliminate things that hurt: get rid of pain by numbing the nerve ends, get rid of insecurity by eliminating risks, get rid of disappointment by depersonalizing your relationships. And then try to lighten the boredom of such a life by buying joy in the form of vacations and entertainment. There isn't a hint of that in Psalm 126.

Countless human beings wear masks which they hope will cover up what they dislike about themselves.

Happiness in other people makes me suspicious.

Mother: "He made me feel like I wasn't really a writer if I wasn't published. It was as if my poetry didn't mean anything unless it was accepted by someone else." After

I wake up afraid that she will be taken and folded up in a closet like clean linen.

I'm afraid something will happen to my hands," he says, "I need my hands.

He is someone who believes he can break things, or he believes that anything can hurt him.

What a reflection on yourself to despise those who admire you! That said, one's usually of two minds: 1. You're ludicrously overdoing it; 2. You don't know the half of it.

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.

It is a fearful thing to love what time can touch.

This is the hour I hide everything Behind my eyes To see if you can see All the trouble my brain's been brewing. Yes, I feel I am the worst and you are the best And yet, and yet, Nothing bad unfolds as we sit, Young and nervous, Alive and bursting, With futures that may not entwine. Who am I? Who am I to sabotage what may be too small For even chaos to notice And disassemble?

Her hand shook as she raised the loincloth and she gave a little gasp at what she saw beneath. Even only half hard, he was big. Way bigger than anyone else in her limited experience—especially Donald whose equipment reminded her of a shy, skinny worm afraid to come out of its hole.

Not only was Feenah—whoever she was—Sylvan's ex, she was also his childhood sweetheart! How could she compete with that? You're not supposed to be competing, she reminded herself sternly. He's foresworn himself of you, remember? But the thought didn't make her feel one bit better. In fact, she felt worse. "Uh-huh.

Sophia was so beautiful in the clinging, moss green tharp and if another male looked at her or wanted to talk to her, he would have to sit by and watch it happen. Because despite what his heart told him, he technically had no claim on her. No claim at all. *

Every single year I was on the block - could be cut, could be released.

The thing with 'Lost Without You' is that for a long time I didn't feel like I could share it with people. When it came to releasing it, it was a cliff-diving moment.

It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

I've always had a reluctance to meet my heroes.