Quotes About Insecurity

losing one's job is much less frightening when getting it seemed an accident in the first place.

Hunger isn't about the amount of food around—it's about being able to afford and control that food. After all, the U.S. has more food than it knows what to do with, and still 50 million people are food insecure.

Mum spent a lot of time in my formative years gently reminding me that people don't think about us nearly as much as we think they do, because they're all busy worrying what people are thinking about them.

gently reminding me that people don't think about us nearly as much as we think they do, because they're all busy worrying what people are thinking about them.

There are people we have never seen who are busy thinking up things we should be worried about.

Any of them could have a disaster before the school year is over. You could have a disaster an hour from now. Bending over. Something could hit you. People carry guns in glove compartments and lunch boxes. Cars spin out of control in minor drizzle. The more you know, really, the more you have to worry and fret about. It's a miracle anyone can sleep at all.

When novelist Margaret Atwood asked women what they feared most from men, they said: 'We're afraid they'll kill us.' When men were asked the same question about women, they said: 'we're afraid they'll laugh at us.

women who looked like fashion models—admitted to knowing, from the time they could first consciously think, that the ideal was someone tall, thin, white, and blond, a face without pores, asymmetry, or flaws, someone wholly "perfect," and someone whom they felt, in one way or another, they were not. I

It is dead easy to become an anorexic.

An employer can't prove an employee incompetent simply by announcing that she is. But because "beauty" lives so deep in the psyche, where sexuality mingles with self-esteem, and since it has been usefully defined as something that is continually bestowed from the outside and can always be taken away, to tell a woman she is ugly can make her feel ugly, act ugly, and, as far as her experience is concerned, be ugly, in the place where feeling beautiful keeps her whole.

O mito da beleza gera nas mulheres uma redução de amor-próprio, com o resultado de altos lucros para as empresas.

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy; unless you let him.

THE FEAR OF LOSS OF LOVE

Fear of competition from followers. The leader who fears that one of his followers may take his position is practically sure to realize that fear sooner or later.

One or more of the basic fears.

deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.

People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.

Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.

Las gentes con el alma pequeña siempre tratan de empequeñecer a los demás

Tell me what you boast of and I´ll tell you what you lack!

Normally, the more talent one has, the more one doubts it. And vice versa.

Leute mit kleiner Seele versuchen immer, die anderen herabzusetzen.

Zavist je religija mediokriteta.

Nothing makes us believe more than fear, the certainty of being threatened. When we feel like victims, all our actions and beliefs are legitimized, however questionable they may be.