“Insecure guys always hatin on a guy who takes care of his looks, has good hygiene & dresses nice. I'm sorry ur mom didn't give a damn bout u.”— ALMOND, twitter.com
“A guy once told me "a man is only insecure about a woman when he knows she deserves better" and that really hit me.”— ALMOND, twitter.com
“If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”— Timothy Ferriss, amazon.com
“You can’t decide not to see yourself anymore. You can’t decide to turn off the noise in your head.”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“There's the popular notion that, beneath the bluster and bombast of a raging narcissist, there is this deeply wounded and insecure person. After all, what else could explain the unchecked ego, unmitigated entitlement, and grandiosity of narcissism? It must be overcompensation.”— Josh Grubbs, twitter.com
“Preferable to accepting one's insignificance is imagining the others hate you.”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com
“Whenever insecurity whispers in your ear, telling you how much you suck, tell it to shut the hell up. Then keep going forward anyway.”— Rebecca O'Donnell, amazon.com
“What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“The desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me. I’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.”— Angelina Jolie, therichest.com
“I have days where I feel like the ugliest person on the planet.”— Alexander Skarsgard, huffingtonpost.com
“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Insecurity is the root of weakness because it causes your dominant thoughts to be controlled by the fear of not being good enough.”— G.L. Lambert, amazon.com
“Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“This is one of the main reasons we struggle with insecurity: we’re comparing our behind-the-scenes with everybody else’s highlight reel.”— Steven Furtick, amazon.com
“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?”— Sarah Addison Allen, amazon.com
“What I can do is paint you a picture of what you’ll never see when you’re with a guy who’s really into you: You’ll never see you staring maniacally at your phone, willing it to ring. You’ll never see you ruining an evening with friends because you’re calling for your messages every fifteen seconds.…”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.com