insecurity

Writing was a defeat, it was a humiliation, it was coming face-to-face with yourself and seeing you weren't good enough.

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

Insecurities have the ability to shape and mold our minds to live with everything that__ bad; like crying on the inside, while smiling on the outside_thus creating pain_but, alas, I have the answer; forget about what you thought and enjoy (embrace) what you feel

Perhaps the most liberating moment in my life was when I realized that my self-loathing was not a product of my inadequacy but, rather, a product of my thoughts.

Insecurity is lack of self love. When your fountain of self love is alive, you will be one with people.

A person__ greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity.

I hadn't even solved the mystery of my own body.

Remember, Reilly, gossip is just people's insecurity and fear of what they don't really understand," Eilam said. "It is unconsciously propagated to feed their egos.""Doesn't it ever bother you?", Reilly asked as he pulled the top off his yogurt."I've lived too long to put any stock in the external judgements of others,or to take anything personally.

That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but occasionally lifting me just beyond what I thought I could accomplish. Either way, it would wash over the same bedrock certainty: ultimately, I know myself. At each stage of my life, I've had a pretty clear notion of my needs and of what I was ready for.

Throughout my career I__e lived in constant fear that I wouldn__ be good enough, that I__ have nothing to say, that I__ be laughed at, humiliated__nd I__ old enough to know that fear will follow me to the very last word I__l ever write. As for now, I feel the first itch of the novel I__ supposed to write__he grain of sand that irritates the soft tissues of the oyster. The beginning of the world as I don__ quite know it. But I trust I__l begin to know it soon.

The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.

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.

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 suffering from feelings of inferiority; their "superior" self is a fiction, a coverup, to hide from themselves and others their deep-down feelings of inferiority and insecurity.

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 any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.

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 to others.

Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.

Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid 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 way and sees life not as a competition.