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

"Lena felt like a child. Worse than a child and less valuable. She felt like a mouse. No, smaller than a mouse and less alive. Her life seemed so small and crumpled you could shoot it through a straw like a spitball."

"Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them."

"Your hard-won triumphs can be wholly negated if you live in a climate where your victories are seen as threatening, incorrect, distasteful, or -- most crucially of all, for a teenage girl -- simply uncool. Few girls would choose to be right -- right, down into their clever, brilliant bones -- but lonely."

"I'm not saying you are jealous or insecure. I'm just saying that you obsessing over another person's accomplishments makes you look that way."

"That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity."

"I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience."

"I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck."

"I had to be the world's biggest loser, writing about hair, and stuff about my body. No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. Why would I want to do that?"

"I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I needto see my bones or I will hate myself even more and Imight cut out my heart or take every pill that was evermade."
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"Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions."

"Choosing beauty and love does not mean being uninformed or weak; it means you clearly see the ugliness, but choose love anyway."

"The incredibly powerful and enriching lifestyle of seeking beauty is a humble service of love and healing."

"Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love."
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