Quotes About Insecurity

People are only mean when they're threatened

Anger is what we feel when we're helpless.

Fear is how you lose your life . . . a little bit at a time. . . . What we give to fear, we take away from . . . faith." The

Worry is something you create." "Why would we create worry?" "To fill a void." "A void of what?" "Faith.

Fear is how you lose your life.. a little bit at a time... What we give to fear, we take away from.. faith.

Hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved

In the history of the evolution of the family, you and the millions of other migrants like you represent an ongoing proliferation of the nuclear. It is an explosive transformation, the supportive, stifling, stabilizing bonds of extended relationships weakening and giving way, leaving in their wake insecurity, anxiety, productivity, and potential.

One's relationship to windows now changed in the city. A window was the border through which death was possibly most likely to come. Windows could not stop even the most flagging round of ammunition: any spot indoors with a view of the outside was a spot potentially in the crossfire. Moreover the pane of a window could itself become shrapnel so easily, shattered by a nearby blast, and everyone had heard of someone or other who had bled out after being lacerated by shards of flying glass.

A little paranoia crawls into my lap, purring loudly.

I know I'm standing still, but I feel like I've stumbled and I'm starting to fall.

and the more he looked the less white he seemed, as though looking for his whiteness was the opposite of whiteness, was driving it further away, making him seem desperate

In Pakistan, my friends and family are frightened, as they should be when the

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.

The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.

Maybe she'd always wished to be beautiful and didn't quite dare to, because she could tell that people didn't say she was and more attention was given to other women, but she still had a frail hope that there'd been a mistake and she was after all.

Sometime when people see a beautiful thing they want to destroy it. The thing make them feel ugly so they act ugly.

The general conception that all actors are born exhibitionists is far from the truth. They are quite the opposite. They are shy, frightened people in hiding from themselves- people who have found a way of concealing their secret by footlights, make up and the parts they play. Their own self rejection is what has made most of them actors.

We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable that if we ever have to face a superior race, we will die of it.

Abel,' she said after a moment, 'do you think that I am beautiful?' She had gone to the opposite wall and turned. She leaned back with her hands behind her, throwing her head a little in order to replace a lock of hair that had fallen across her brow. She sucked at her cheeks, musing. 'No, not beautiful,' he said.

Matt worried about what would happen to him now. Would Rosa come back and throw him into the sawdust? Would she make good on her promise to bury him alive?

No woman really minds hearing of the past affairs of her lover, it is the future alone that has the power to terrify

Sophia feared that divorce, re-marriage, and subsequent poverty would not bring out the best in her character.

Though why would this incredibly sexy, sophisticated man be interested in me? I was the girl-next-door type, a solid B student, and he was the kind of sexy academic who probably dated brilliant supermodels.

But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.