Quotes About Insecurity

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Fear is a funny unpredictable thing.

We must think upon these things that threaten our love, which cause us to fear its loss. Fear is not good. We must conquer it and our mistrust. A

It's such a liability to love another person.

You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

I was baffled by my fuzzy hair and the attention it drew, and the urgency with which people advised that I have it 'straightened', as if it posed a threat.

I did not know my own identity. I was burgled of body and hung in the sky like a woman of straw.

1. Adult children of alcoholics guess at what normal behavior is. 2. Adult children of alcoholics have difficulty following a project through from beginning to end.

Nothing, however, is certain except uncertainty and there is always interference in the lines of flight.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

My schoolmates hurried home the way they always did, the bold kids scuffling and shouting and the timid, gawky ones yearning toward a brief return to their real lives in which they were their mamas' treasures instead of the dull, easily bullied children they impersonated at school.

You're a photographer, for Pete's sake. You need a photo of yourself front and center." "Well, yes, but..." A deep sigh followed on my end. How could I explain that I hated photos of myself?

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.

as a general proposition, until very recently, vice presidents have always been excluded because it is unsettling to have someone around you whose happiest moment will be when you drop dead.

Without our caretaker's protection, our only protection is to stay small and build defensive structures into our personality.

Another way to talk about this thin-skinned quality is to say that trauma tends to make you more reactive. Reactivity here means having a bigger reaction than the situation calls for, whether it is more fear, more insecurity, more anger, more mistrust, or more of any other emotion. We all get reactive at times, yet those who are caught in trauma-related disorders become reactive a lot of the time.

Hell," Tony Bonelli tells me, "is having no control." Tony's

The fear of missing out. It's the affliction that drives obsessive checking of Twitter feeds, Facebook updates, Instagram stories, WhatsApp groups, and news apps.

Don't be insecure about aiming to be a small business. Anyone who runs a business that's sustainable and profitable, whether it's big or small, should be proud.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

But because many of us are afraid of being hurt, we have decided to build only walls. No doors, no windows, no peep holes. Just walls.

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

Los hombres tenemos la capacidad de meter miedo a las mujeres con una mera inflexión de la voz o una frase amenazadora y fría, nuestras manos son más fuertes y aprietan desde hace siglos.