The earthquake of discomfort you feel moving inside of you when someone insults you is your own insecurity.

The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.

Surely it is the one who fears he is wrong who avoids criticism. The one who is sure he is right invites it. It only illuminates the strength of beliefs and makes them more available...

You’ve grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives…alone. On their own. Undecided. And they get used to that feeling. It’s just new for you.

Read it with sorrow and you will feel hate.Read it with anger and you will feel vengeful.Read it with paranoia and you will feel confusion.Read it with empathy and you will feel compassion.Read it with...

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see...

When I feel threatened, vulnerable, or insecure, whether it from simply walking into a room of unknown people, meeting someone for the first time, an unexpected or expected confrontation, or doing something new, I affirm...

Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please other people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a...

You don’t have to knock anyone off their game to win yours. It doesn’t build you up to tear others down.

These trials are already taking place in an atmosphere of enormous insecurity,

I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the...

I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before...

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

A blanket could be used to hide my shame and cover my insecurities. But so could a camouflaged condom.

It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex. People who seem to have one are actually...

I think there’s nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs.

Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.

Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people’s perception of you rather than people’s perception of you.

One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.

I scrupulously hide every legitimate reason for people to hate me, and it turns out they don’t need legitimate reasons. Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.

I’m always described as ‘cocksure’ or ‘with a swagger’, and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old friends even before they speak, that it was Edward. He sounded as if he...

Staying with detractors is like sleeping in a room located just behind the public toilet. You will never feel comfortable until you relocate.

Insecurity, thy name is teenager.

Fear takes root in the soil of insecurity.

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over...

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

I’m not insecure. I’ve been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I’ve got huge balls. But I’ve been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.

If anyone doesn’t agree with you, the truth is on your side.

All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It’s well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They’re only happy in their imaginary worlds, because that’s where they’re in charge –...

Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.