Quotes about Insecurity

Do I strike you as a man with a miserable inferiority complex?" "Good God, no!" "Only that kind of man spends his life running after women.

I don't think I really like myself. And I blame the Old Man for this.

Every kid has it tough. Being a little person in a big world with nobody taking you very seriously is tough.

Insecure people think that all reality should be amenable to their paradigms. They have a high need to clone others, to mold them over into their own thinking. They don't realize that the very strength of the relationship is in having another point of view. Sameness is not oneness; uniformity is not unity. Unity, or oneness, is complementariness, not sameness. Sameness is uncreative… and boring. The essence of synergy is to value the differences.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.

I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.

The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

Such insinuated insecurities need to be confronted directly and plainly. It is not possible to drift unconsciously from faith to perdition.

A common but futile strategy for achieving joy is trying to eliminate things that hurt: get rid of pain by numbing the nerve ends, get rid of insecurity by eliminating risks, get rid of disappointment by depersonalizing your relationships. And then try to lighten the boredom of such a life by buying joy in the form of vacations and entertainment. There isn't a hint of that in Psalm 126.