Quotes About Insecurities

I was 5' 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.

With shows with plus-sized characters, there are all of these lines of being jealous at so and so or mad at so and so for being skinny and their great diets. It's so all-encompassing and exhausting. I'm not saying that's not some women, but it's just not all of us.

My big mission in life is to get guys out of those big, baggy board shorts down to their knees. It always looks like they're trying to hide something, like skinny legs.

I remember Googling operations to make my calves slimmer, and I ate only ham for a week to try and become skinny.

Most people don't really understand why love makes us vulnerable, or open. It's because love, to be fully expressed and through your being, begins to eliminate all the fears, all the insecurities and all the anxieties that are inconsistent with itself.

We both had hang-ups, insecurities, and an addiction to each other that required regular contact to keep us functioning properly. I hated being apart from him. I rarely went more than a couple of hours without thinking of him.

And then I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon as he came to love me I would find fault after fault, the way I did with Buddy Willard and the boys before him. The same thing happened over and over:

And I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon as he came to love me I would find fault after fault, the way I did with Buddy Willard and the boys before him.

Boys worry just as much about their looks as girls do. We only hide it better.

It's definitely particular to each situation, but whether it is a long history or someone that you're intimidated by or someone that you didn't think you ever had a shot at, at the end of the day, I think we're all living through high school, every day.

You're not alone if you have skin problems or if makeup is irritating you.

We don't talk about body dysmorphia and we don't talk about body hatred either. We keep it really isolated and I think that injures us as we get older because it becomes habitual.

I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.

I've become very aware of body issues and body confidence.

As a very curvy woman, jeans are always a hard find.

Sure, I'm sensitive about my weight. I don't do fat jokes.

All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

The important thing to know about worthiness is that it doesn't have prerequisites. Most of us, on the other hand, have a long list of worthiness prerequisites—qualifiers that we've inherited, learned, and unknowingly picked up along the way. Most of these prerequisites fall in the categories of accomplishments, acquisitions, and external acceptance. It's the if/when problem ("I'll be worthy when ..." or "I'll be worthy if ...").

For children, it's easy for everything to become a source of shame when nothing is normalized. You assume that if no one is talking about it, it must be just you.

Yes, we are all conspiracy theorists with our own stories, constantly filling in data gaps with our fears and insecurities.

messages of self-doubt and self-criticism that we carry around in our heads. My answer was "There are a few of them.

The first task of seeking guidance then is to touch your own struggles, doubts, and insecurities—in short, to affirm your life as a quest.8 Your life, my life, is given graciously by God. Our lives are not problems to be solved but journeys to be taken with Jesus as our friend and finest guide.

petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.