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

"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 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."

"An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, "Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you're not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need."

"It's always the people who strive to find, and tell you about one of your imperfections, that want to feel one step above you. The truth is their ten steps below you with nothing better to say."

"People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not."

"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."

"I have this idea stuck in my head that you have to be born beautiful in order to dream beautiful things. God didn't write beautiful on my heart. I'm stuck with all my bad dreams. Bad dreams for bad boys. I guess that's the way it is for me. Look, there's nothing I can do about it."

"The earthquake of discomfort you feel moving inside of you when someone insults you is your own insecurity."
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"People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!"

"Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady."

"Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you."

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