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"Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them."
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"That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity."
"I feel like oversized trousers on sale, not even made of good material, that no one wants to buy. They just hang in there hoping that someone someday will compromise for its low cost."
"It is tragic the way fearful people put all of their fears and insecurities into others, the way they strangle their dreams - often in the name of love."
"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."
"The earthquake of discomfort you feel moving inside of you when someone insults you is your own insecurity."
"Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity."
"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."
"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."
"Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied."
"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."
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