Quotes About Insecurity

We (men) would rather lose an arm out a city bus window than tell you simply, "You're not the one." We are quite sure you will kill us or yourself or both—or even worse, cry and yell at us.

Sometimes they speak words that cut or bruise my soul, telling me I am unlovely and unlovable—a message I am unaccountably ready to believe. They may be the voices of people close to me, the culture around me, the advertising I can't escape, religion, education, or of my own innate pride or insecurities.

You are good at this. Most men are not. Or at least that's what they tell themselves until they believe it. And so they can use incompetence to get out of work.

Most husbands seek to kill their wives' loves so we'll love only them. They are insecure little boys.

There's a subtle yet significant difference between leaving our jobs, friends, and romances because we're complete and staying with them because of the fear that there's nothing else for us!

Even paranoids have enemies.

the numerous ways in which you can destroy love. You can fritter it away, through flirting and affairs. You can fail to pay it attention and watch it wither. You can poison it with arguments and bad blood. You can give up on it without even realising, preoccupied in your own corner. You can let it slip through your fingers as you scan the horizon, believing that there is someone, something better elsewhere.

It is not lack of ability, but lack of motivation, lack of focus, and lack of self-confidence that prevents most aspiring authors from finishing what they started.

A hatalom a félelem legmagasabb rend? megnyilvánulása, amelyet az ember önmaga számára alkot meg, éppen azon er?feszítései révén, melyeket azért tesz, hogy megszabaduljon t?lük.

so if you love him, why keep him waiting for 13 years?" "Because I was afraid. Afraid of not being worthy, afraid of not knowing how to love him, afraid of waking up one day and not loving him anymore.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. What scares you, is not your weaknesses, but your strengths.

Viata e cel mai nesigur mod de a trai.

No es que lo aborreciera por ser él, sino por el que yo era en comparación con él. Esa es la más intransitable de las envidias, la que se coagula en el estrecho pasaje hacia la confianza en uno mismo.

He wrestled with himself, like Jacob . . . like every leader ever to set foot on this earth. It is not faith that distinguishes our real leaders. It is doubt. Their ability to overcome it.

Fear is the foundation of your identity.

To put it another way, I am not trying to convince you; I am trying to convince myself.

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

She had come to accept, deeply, and with certitude, that she had been born into a world, a life, that would not let her be whole.

Although reducing poverty, economic insecurity, malnutrition and ill-health should be the primary driving forces, an additional factor is the stress being placed on societies all over the world from distress and other forms of migration. A basic income system in impoverished and low-income communities in developing countries would surely encourage more people to stay in and (re)build their communities.

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

What they prefer to that is to find someone to have power over; someone to own and to bully, to smash and to waste. She wondered if she would ever be in love.

I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.

You horrify me. But at the same time, I horrify myself. We are horrible.

If you are embarrassed about your sexuality. It must mean that you feel there is something demeaning or disgusting about being you