Quotes About Insecurity

For love's sake women must reject the roles that are offered to them in our society. As impotent, insecure, inferior beings they can never love in a generous way.

Envy eats nothing but its own heart

Feeling dissatisfied with yourself, how you look, the person you are, or how you feel is an almost universal female experience within our culture. Even when we outwardly reject the cultural mores, many of us are still left with internalised feelings of inadequacy, of not quite 'measuring up'. Women, in particular, are encouraged to focus on their appearance and body shape—hence the success of special diets, low-fat foods, slimming aids and cosmetic surgery.

I looked at her. She wore a very tight and tiny two-piece orange bathing swimsuit that inadequately covered the overplump body I'd been using as a forget-yourself machine.

Colonel Sir Guy Wethered's thoughts were still peculiar as he watched his guest open the door for his young wife. Danger had always stimulated him. And this might be danger of a new kind. "I made her marry me", he brooded. "And I'll damn well make her stay married to me. Whether she wants to or whether she doesn't." Not that there could be any real danger from Rusty. All the same…

Self-consciousness comes from focusing your attention inwards, on to yourself, so that you become painfully aware of what is happening to you. At its worst, self-consciousness dominates your attention and makes it difficult to think of anything else but your inner experience – and this can become totally paralyzing.

Maybe it's because I was the youngest or maybe it's because I was girl, but I've spent much of my life expecting to be chastised for asking stupid questions.

Every potato chip I've have ever eaten has added another chip to my shoulder. They're a lot heavier to carry around than the pounds, somehow.

freedom is only ever a fall without a net.

If you are unkind, insecure, defensive, or cold in relationship because of some belief, that inner climate is bound to sabotage your chance for a healthy relationship. Who you are likely to end up with is someone who is willing to be with someone who is unloving, insecure, defensive, or cold because he needs to be with someone—anyone—rather than because he loves you. This can't be a satisfying relationship for long, and your belief becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Se o invejado é na verdade superior ao invejoso, ninguém pode nada contra ele: o grande tem de descer até ao pequeno para ser contagiado.

I considered him and felt the now familiar crush of emotions weighing on me, begging me to cave in and fall into his strong arms. I pushed back with every ounce of energy I had left. Every time I trusted someone, I got hurt. Every time I let go, I was let down. Not again. I would drive them away before the left.

A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

you believe you are always being watched and judged, you are not really a free individual.

Actually, offense is a sign of fear. If you're offended, it's because you're afraid that person can harm you in some way.

Your problem is that you should like yourself better." Of course, he was right—but how could she like herself when she felt she had no self ?

Polls show that what women fear most from men is violence, and what men fear most from women is ridicule.

The nature and specifics of the negative depend on the part of the country and the year, but the common thread is: self-doubt.

When you're dependent, it's very hard not to be worried about the approval of whoever and whatever you're dependent on. For

Obstruction is the fate of the feared, the envied.

INQUIETUD: A aquel que está en mi poder, el mundo no le sirve de nada.

Let go of our so-often-denied fear of being found unlovable.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.