Quotes about Insecurity

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

What is most startling in reading a detailed explanation of what goes on beneath the surface at the age of fifteen is that the same dynamics continue into the twenties, thirties, fifties, seventies, and nineties. We remain trapped in living a pretend life out of an unhealthy concern for what other people think.

Some of us are addicted to what others think.

Our self-image soars with a compliment and is devastated by a criticism.

A child doesn't say, "What's wrong with this environment where I am growing up?" They think, What's wrong with me?

And Teddy worried lots about The fact that he was rather stout. He thought: "If only I were thin! But how does anyone begin?

It is hard to be brave,' said Piglet, sniffing slightly, 'when you're only a Very Small Animal.

I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.

Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.

I'm cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I'm cold.' 'You're going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You're going to be all right.' 'I'm cold,' Snowden said again in a frail, childlike voice. 'I'm cold.' 'There, there,' Yossarian said, because he did not know what else to say. 'There, there.' 'I'm cold,' Snowden whimpered. 'I'm cold.' 'There, there. There, there.

I've always depended very heavily on the good opinion of others.

When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.