Quotes About Inadequacy

And one of the biggest things I still can't get over is that even when I'm doing something right, I still feel like I'm doing something wrong. I always have that feeling that it's not good enough. That I'm not good enough.

It made him feel like a mom, ineffectual and sexless.

But George knows he can't do that. Because, absurdly, inadequately, in spite of himself, almost, he is a representative of the hope. And the hope is not false. No. It's just that George is like a man trying to sell a real diamond for a nickel, on the street. The diamond is protected from all but the tiniest few, because the great hurrying majority can never stop to dare to believe that it could conceivably be real.

Theo looked over at Gabe's ex-girlfriend, considered the heels, the stockings, the makeup, the hair, the lines of her suit, her nose, her hips, and felt like he was looking at a sports car that he could not afford, would not know how to drive, and he could only envision himself entangled in the wreckage of, wrapped around a telephone pole.

Jealousy is really an umbrella term for a constellation of feelings including envy, competitiveness, insecurity, inadequacy, possessiveness, fear of abandonment, feeling unloved, and feeling left out.

Zawsze tak jest - je?li ci sie nie powiedzie, szukasz kogo?, aby oskar?aj?c go, usprawiedliwi? w?asne niedo??stwo.

If you fail to have an erection the first time, you're impotent for the rest of your life.

Really, his French was terrible.

I'm worse at what I do best.

i'm worse at what i do best.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.

Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

It wasn't enough, not nearly enough, but it was all there was.

He has many things I haven't got," said Jace. "Like nearsightedness, bad posture, and an appalling lack of coordination." -Jace about Simon, pg. 331-

Stupid people make bad rulers.

I was forced to realize how culturally laden, to the point of inadequacy, psychotherapy was for Danny. I now know how the famous Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung felt in 1925 after spending time with an Indigenous man: Jung was made aware, he said, of his "imprisonment in the cultural consciousness of the white man." Freud, along with all the other European founding fathers of psychotherapy, knew nearly nothing of Indigenous culture, and neither did I. But as my father used to say,

We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

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.

No matter what I give, I will always fall short of what I—daughter, mother, wife—am supposed to be.

The universal story is: "I'm not good enough. Life isn't good enough!" Built into everyone's story is an I that needs to strive to be good enough and to make life turn out right. When the me does succeed at something, that feeling of finally being good enough is all too soon replaced by the old drumbeat: "I'm still not good enough! Life still isn't good enough!

los imprevistos son siempre el resultado de la incompetencia