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• Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Confidence, Self, Challenges

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.67, Vintage

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• If a Latina falls in love with someone who is insecure, it can be a nightmare.

  Sofia Vergara

  Falling In Love, Nightmare, Latina

  "Sofia Vergara Gives Men Tips on Landing Latina Women" By Alexandra J. Gratereaux, www.foxnews.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore

  John Lennon

  Feelings, Might, Feeling Insecure

  Song: Jealous Guy, Album: Imagine

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• The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.

  Andy Stanley

  Thinking, Leader, Critical

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• Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.

  Lawrence S. Kubie

  Love, Education, Time

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• And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.

  Brennan Manning

  Jobs, Men, Fire

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.19, Multnomah

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• The hardest period in life is one’s twenties. It’s a shame because you’re your most gorgeous, and you’re physically in peak condition. But it’s actually when you’re most insecure and full of self-doubt. When you don’t know what’s going to happen, it’s frightening.

  Helen Mirren

  Self, Doubt, Twenties

  "Helen Mirren: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 07, 2011.

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• The insecure way is the secure way.

  Joseph Campbell

  Way, Secure

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• If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He goes out and creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes. He's a pretty poor excuse for a Supreme Being.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Atheist, Mistake, Demand

  Edward A. Gross, Gene Roddenberry, Mark A. Altman (1994). “Great Birds of the Galaxy”, Image Pub of New York

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• Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.

  Dan Barker

  Faith, Atheist, Real

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• The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure.

  Noah Webster

  Law, Guardian, Sole

  Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.16

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• When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

  Lady Gaga

  Girl, Morning, Years

  "The Broken Heart and Violent Fantasies of Lady Gaga". Interview with Neil Strauss, www.rollingstone.com. July 8, 2010.

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• If you want to be unhappy, uncomfortable, and insecure, just spend your life trying to do something that is not right for you. It is just like trying to wear shoes that don't fit.

  Joyce Meyer

  Shoes, Unhappy, Trying

  Joyce Meyer (2012). “Approval Addiction”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• I am grateful to learn from their mistakes, because I am not injecting s- into my face. I see them and my heart breaks. I think, 'Oh God, if you only know how much older you look.' They are trying to stop the clock and all you can see is an insecure person who won't let themselves just age. I also have a fiancé who will put a gun to my head if I touch my face in any way.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Mistake, Grateful, Heart

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• Love, like life, is so insecure. It moves in our lives and occupies its sweet space in our hearts so easily. But it never guarantees that it will stay there forever. Probably that's why it is so precious.

  Ravinder Singh

  Sweet, Moving, Heart

  Ravinder Singh (2011). “Can Love Happen Twice?”, p.133, Penguin UK

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• Don't be insecure, if your heart is pure

  Lady Gaga

  Heart, Pure, Ifs

  Song: Bad Kids, Album: Born This Way, 2011

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• I don't find myself as sexy as everyone thinks. I'm a lot more insecure than people would assume, but with little stupid things. When I get dressed, I'm always so indecisive.

  Kim Kardashian

  Sexy, Stupid, Thinking

  "Kim Kardashian: We Can't Keep Up!". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. January 2, 2011.

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• Behind a cold face there is always an insecure heart.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Heart, Faces

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• When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Morning, Wake Up

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• The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security. On the other hand, the more we are forced to admit that we actually live in the real world, the more we feel ignorant, uncertain, and insecure about everything.

  Alan Watts

  Real, Hands, Joy

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Having no background in philosophic thought and ignorant of the reasons supporting their faith, they experience great uneasiness when someone questions their beliefs. Such people often live closely guarded lives, fearful of encountering someone or something that might shatter their insecure spiritual foundation.This attitude, however, is not the fault of religion but of their own limited understanding. True Dharma leads in exactly the opposite direction. It enables one to integrate all the many diverse experiences of life into a meaningful and coherent whole, thereby banishing fear and insecurity completely.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Buddhist

  "Wisdom Energy: Basic Buddhist Teachings".

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• Walk away from 'friendships' that make you feel small and insecure, and seek out people who inspire you and support you

  Michelle Obama

  Support You, People, Inspire

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• Jesus becomes the captive of the hysterically religious, the chronically fearful, the insecure and even the neurotic among us, or he becomes little more than a fading memory, the symbol of an age that is no more and a nostalgic reminder of our believing past. To me, neither option is worth pursuing.

  John Shelby Spong

  Religious, Jesus, Memories

  John Shelby Spong (2009). “Jesus for the Non-Religious”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• The confident ask questions to learn what will connect. The insecure just keep talking with the hope something will stick.

  Simon Sinek

  Talking, Sticks, Asks

  Twitter post from Mar 12, 2010

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• Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.

  T. D. Jakes

  Poison, Needs, Fuel

  T.D. Jakes (2007). “Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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