Insecurity Quotes

“You're all I want,' I say. It comes out softer than I mean it to, like my lungs are more insecure than my head.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“Beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit. To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself - avoid trying to be something you're not.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

“I started to see that rather than overthinking every decision, I could simply decide to make a decision—any decision. I would learn something whatever happened. Each time I did this it seemed that my ability to tap into my gut increased and my tendency to spend too long analyzing diminished.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“Like so many men, he needed a woman stronger than himself, for behind the harsh cragginess of the Easter Island façade cowered the small boy, uncertain of himself.”
― Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels

“She was so hemmed in all the time by timidity and insecurity that every once in a while some self-destructive impulse in her demanded brash action. It was the same impulse that had made her send those photos to Simon. She had no control over it.”
― Alexandra Andrews, Vem är Maud Dixon?

“I didn't have the faintest idea how to be seductive. I would just have to settle for flushed and self-conscious.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“Het grote verderf van het "mindere" is, dat het het "betere" aan zichzelf doet twijfelen -, omdat het kenmerk van het "mindere" het redeloze, de zelfverzekerdheid is, en het kenmerk van het "betere", het redelijke, juist "de twijfel".”
― Carry van Bruggen, Een coquette vrouw

“Are you so scared of what others think?”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“Do you compare your life to someone else’s “highlight reel” on social media? What if you were to drop your thoughts of comparison to others and just take steps towards whatever you want in life?”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“Facebook Sonnet

Facebook is not just injurious to health,
It's now a full-on humanitarian crisis.
If you think it's just a harmless bad habit,
You're fanning the flames of social necrosis.
Social media ought to make people social,
Not make pavlov's dogs out of humanity.
Yet all that facebook actually does today,
Is drive society towards clinical insanity.
Social media is not necessarily bad,
So long as it doesn't feed on our stability.
Yet facebook has devised the perfect algorithm,
To learn, pump and monetize human instability.
Facebook is the definition of what AI must be not.
Algorithm without humanity is mental holocaust.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“I have a bunch of moles on my body,' said Phoebe. 'They make me look disgusting. My closet’s literally filled with the most spectacular turtleneck collection you’ve ever seen.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“The shit thing about beauty is only another can redeem it. You can love yourself, but because beauty is in the eye of the beholder, those without beholders aren’t beautiful. They cannot trick themselves into thinking they are. Someone has to say it. Someone has to say, “You are beautiful.” One’s beauty is like the classic fallen tree; “If no one was near the tree when it fell, did it really fall?” If people called you a beautiful baby and now you’ve grown, are you still beautiful?”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Most people don't actually live life, for they live in the assumption of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“A well-built character is the epitome of righteousness, hence, above the petty insecurities and rigidities of society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“Two free souls walking together is called love; It's an energizing experience. Two people (one insecure and other reckless) tied to each other with a rope is called attachment; It's a draining experience.”
― Shunya

“How could she blame him for being insensitive when she was so insecure?”
― Jenny Lee, Anna K: A Love Story

“It’s easy to make assumptions about people, especially on social media. We see a few photographs and some updates and we compare the few highlights we get with the worst impressions we have of our own lives.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“Comparison to others is like a mind virus that keeps us small our whole lives. It keeps us in a victim mindset, and through it we give away our power to things outside our control.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“Our thinking is not a fixed entity, and therefore it makes no sense to try to change it.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“When we let go of any misunderstandings we may have, this gives rise to new thinking and new ideas; it unleashes creativity and helps us have a better experience of life.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“An insight is just a thought I’ve not had before.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“My intellect is a wonderful thing and it is helpful, but I now see that there is another, deeper place of intelligence within me—and everyone else. Once we tap into it we can begin to transform our lives.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“If my mind is busy thinking about things like how someone hurt or upset me and how I can protect myself or get back at them, I’m too busy in my head to enjoy the present moment.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“Take a few moments to see if you can notice this silence beneath all of your thinking, ideas, beliefs and stories.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“In its severe form, this is not uncommonly seen when a person has such low self-esteem that their Chimp allows their partner to beat them up, physically or psychologically, and then remain with them. Learn to recognise what is happening and work with their Chimp’s emotions and learn to build self-esteem and self-respect to replace insecurity. This is not an easy task and professional help is often needed.”
― Steve Peters

“The more jessica changed her face and body the less secure she got.”
― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers

“Sometimes it’s our own fear and insecurity that keeps us stuck in an unhealthy relationship… Scared to walk away, let go, and move on… Fear blinds us from seeing our true potential… Insecurity keeps us thinking small for ourselves. We say things like, “The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know”… Never even imagining ourselves outside of hell.”
― Steve Maraboli

“All I wanted to do was to keep on drinking, live life, not give a toss, yet I hit a wall whenever I did that, a wall of petite bourgeoisie and middle-class manners, which could not be broken down without enormous anguish and fear. I wanted to, but I couldn't. Deep down I was decent and proper, a goody-goody, and, I thought, perhaps that was also why I couldn't write. I wasn't wild enough, not artistic enough, in short, much too normal for my writing to take off. What had made me believe anything else?”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 5

“There’s a grey area in dating many people get hung up on — a grey area where feelings are ambiguous or one person has stronger feelings than the other. [...]
Most dating advice exists to “solve” this grey area for people. Say this line. Text her this. Call him this many times. Wear that.
Much of it gets exceedingly analytical, to the point where some men and women actually spend more time analyzing behaviors than actually, you know, behaving.”
― Mark Manson

“Fuck Yes or No applies to relationships as well. My wife used to work with a guy who got married because “it seemed like the right thing to do.”

You do your taxes because “it seems like the right thing to do.” You wipe your infant’s ass because “it seems like the right thing to do.” You don’t marry someone because “it seems like the right thing to do.” You marry them because you can’t fucking imagine ever not wanting to be with them.

Unsurprisingly, four years later, he was cheating on his wife every chance he got. The marriage was not a “Fuck Yes” for him. It should have been a “No” from Day 1.”
― Mark Manson