Quotes About Insecurity

how it does rankle to be the 'old,' to be the one who is no longer courted. To be the one that no one tries any longer to please. [Édouard Manet]

Shame and doubt, the two great cripplers... [Édouard Manet]

jealousy is a sign of a shallow mind and weak character.

Les hommes de nature infidèle, si infatués qu'ils paraissent, sont souvent assez modestes en amour, parce qu'ils imaginent les autres d'après eux-mêmes. (Le roi de fer, partie 3, ch. 7, p. 328)

Les médiocres me tolère que d'être entourés de flateurs qui leur cachent à eux-même leur médiocrité.

Inside my head, I shit my pants.

To people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Oh, this yearning to be white, this yearning to have straight hair, this lifelong striving to be different from the way one is created this great difficulty in accepting oneself, I knew it and saw only my own longing from outside, saw the absurdity of our yearning to be different from what we are...

Low self esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

modern man's anxiety and insecurity stemmed from a lack of self-realization, and that inner security can only be found "in finding in oneself an individuality, uniqueness, and distinctiveness that is akin to the idea of being created in the image of God.

The person with emotional scars not only has a self-image of an unwanted, disliked, and incapable person, he also has an image of the world in which he lives as a hostile place.

afraid of making

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

U mraku, u magli, u kricima i zvižducima, u o?ajanju kojem nisam nalazio razlog, u toj dugoj no?i nesna, u crnom strahu koji nije od neprijatelja, ve? od ne?ega od mene, rodio sam se ovakav kakav sam, nesiguran u sve svoje i u sve ljudsko.

Maloprije sam bio siguran da sam joj potreban i da ?e to re?i ne štede?i ponos. Mislio sam da sam nadmo?niji. A sad sam želio da ?ujem bilo šta o sebi, lijepo ili ružno, povoljno ili nepovoljno, ali sam to želio s bijesom, gotovo s mržnjom, osje?aju?i da mi se izmakla, da nisam za nju neophodnost.

Njih dvoje kradu svoju srecu, i misle da imaju pravo na nju, ne usudjujuci se da je ucine ljepsom.

Da je ljudska misao nesiguran talas sto ga podize ili smiruje cudljivi vjetar straha ili zelje.

A strah i nemoc radjaju niske nagone.

Each time someone told her, "You have such a pretty face," she felt as though they wanted to sever her head from her body, to discard the meat of her and leave the small round disk of her face as her one saving quality. She was supposed to be grateful for his attention

I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.

I've always had a fear of being small and ordinary. "How can I just have this one life?

Jealousy was essentially "I want what you have," while envy was "I want what you have, but I also want to take it away so you can't have it.

What was it about needy girls? Jules wondered. They felt like they had the right to be needy, because they knew that other people would be interested in—although annoyed at—their needs. … They got all the attention. Boys turned their focus toward them, and messy situations results.