Quotes About Insecurity

am not exaggerating; it can be scary to see what some people will believe in order to feel superior.

Borderline parents with an insecure sense of self may use jewelry, clothes, and other trappings as proof of their attainment of the idealized happy family, regardless of their means. Rather than unconditional love, nurturance, and open communication, the emphasis may have been on how things appeared to outsiders. Thus the need for expensive cars, respectable jobs, obedient children, well-groomed pets, a carefully landscaped yard. The

I'm tired of feeling ashamed. About my foot.

Somehow Christmas was making me feel jumpy inside. All this talk about being together and being happy and celebrating - it felt threatening. Like I shouldn't be part of it. Like I wasn't allowed. And Susan wanted me to be happy, which was scarier still.

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

She'd tried so hard to prove she was good enough. And now, with a few simple sentences, Harriett had explained it so plainly. Jo had been good enough all along. They'd made her feel like a failure, when the truth was, they just hadn't wanted her around. There was nothing she could have done.

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.

There's no end to suspicion once you get going.

Cowards can't be faulted for being shy. They can't be held responsible for anything.

Worry can bring you down to nothing and make you doubt everything you know about yourself.

Try a bikini next time." "Right. I'll also try setting myself on fire, since it would be just as fun.

True peace was rare when you were fat. When you were fat, you wore armor to protect and deflect. You were either sharp and bitter, inspiring fear in potential bullies, or you were extra cheerful to show nothing mattered at all, not the snubs or the insults or the degradation. When you were fat, you worked so hard to be invisible. You lived in fear of being noticed, singled out, of having someone point out what you already knew.

understood. Blue highlight | Location: 2,477 I smile at everyone because I'm afraid they hate me on sight, so I try to be extra sweet. Though I don't do it on purpose, I even talk in a softer, higher-pitched voice than I use when I'm talking to myself, or with Marley or Georgia.

the harsh world of junior high, where cliques were carved in stone, and cafeteria seating was more complex than the British peerage

Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another.

You are more afraid of love than any person I've ever met. It's why you keep testing people pushing them away. Open your eyes.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad ' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.

Self-esteem comes from the Lord, not other people. Why should we care what other's think?

It's scary that people can just stop loving you, you know?

I look at people who aren't us and I hate them.

She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.

Ah, Elsa. You got a wrong picture of yourself. Even if that is true, what does a person do about it? The things your parents say and the things your husband doesn't say become a mirror, don't they? You see yourself as they see you. and no mater how far you come, you bring that mirror with you. Break it, Jean said. How? With a gosh dang rock. Jean leaned forward. I'm a mirror too, Elsa. You remember that.