Emotional Insecurity Quotes

#1. Ultimately, too much dependency on a person can kill love. Relationships based on emotional insecurity and need, rather than on love, can become self-destructive. They don't work. Too much need drives people away and smothers love. It scares people away.

Melody Beattie

#2. Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness.

Gary Zukav

#3. Neck touching takes place when there is emotional discomfort, doubt, or insecurity.

Joe Navarro

#4. That you and I don't use emotional condoms. We just let the messy goo of who we are fly free, threatening to impregnate us with insecurity of infect us with the pain of true intimacy.

Mo Daviau

#5. I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything that required emotional commitment ... I had chosen a profession that thrives on insecurity, and is never far from some source of social intercourse that involves alcohol or drugs.

Lynda Bellingham

#6. The outside conditions of your life do not make you feel either secure or insecure. One person may feel secure with practically no money at all, while another may feel insecure with a million dollars in the bank. Your feelings of security or insecurity are due to your emotional programming.

Ken Keyes Jr.