Quotes About Insecurity

She dressed to cast her daughter in a frumpy light.

the enemy that's going to paralyze you with fear is your own sense of self-importance and your excessive ego. The thought of not living up to the image of yourself that you want everyone to see is a source of tremendous anxiety. At

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

A cold feeling crept through my body and settled on my skin in a cool sweat as I realized: the person I counted on most in the world was just as powerless as I was.

that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.

To own is to fear.

Please understand: I wear glasses. This was no place for a man with glasses.

Some people hold on to a position or title for dear life; they hold on so tight, in fact, that they sabotage their own lives in the process.

Indecision is the source of chaos." - Paris Skyle(Allies of the Night)

We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

we buy things we don't need with money we don't have in order to impress people we don't like.

If you or I have a doubt that really bothers us, though, we're likely to respond very differently. We're likely to treat that doubt as if it were a sign of danger, rather than the usual discomfort we can feel about uncertainty. When you get tricked into treating the discomfort of doubt as if it were danger, this leads you to struggle against the doubt, trying to remove the unwanted thoughts from your mind.

You cannot really unconditionally love others when when you need to prove your own self worth

The moment you begin to consider having more than someone else, you begin to fear you might end up with less than someone else.

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

fears about yourself prevent you from doing your best work, while fears about your reception by others prevent you from doing your own work.

Fears about artmaking fall into two families: fears about yourself and fears about your reception by others.

Consider that if artist equals self, then when (inevitably) you make flawed art, you are a flawed person, and when (worse yet) you make no art, you are no person at all!

Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what you know you should be, and what you fear you might be.

Voyeur" [Chorus:] I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. [Verse:] Cause I am flawed When I am through those doors Cause I am flawed Times unsure I should do whatever will make you feel secure [Chorus: x11] I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me.

Bogus fears can produce real servitude.

Even though I have not mastered it, I now have a better sense of what makes us want others to think well of us, and how we can prevent that desire from ruling in our hearts. False Narrative: My Value Is Determined by Your Assessment

Thrown from my secure life, whether by chance or the Powers That Be, I was sitting on a skipping stone and it was fear, not confidence, that was increasing with the ripples of uncertainty. Mine had become a world without center.

I have a tiny wiener.