Tara Brach Quotes

I understand that feeling of insecurity, like you're not good enough as you are, and you need to change.

I still have a lot of moments where I don't feel worthy.

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.

Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.

I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.

We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough.

I hate myself because I am not beautiful.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

We have no faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.

I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

I don't feel I'm even worthy of a normal amount of value.

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

Every day I receive messages that I'm not good enough, that I should lose my job.

So many people can tell me, 'You're amazing,' rather, but I don't think it. You know, so, I don't go around thinking this. I'm really hard on myself. I think that's quite good.

I always felt like I was stupid and couldn't get anything right unless I was singing, dancing, or acting.

I think, a lot of times, where people see they're insufficient or lacking in certain areas, they feel they're being judged even when they're not. And they condemn themselves more than anyone else does.

I believed what people said, that I don't deserve to be a leader because of the way I look. That I don't deserve to be popular, that I don't deserve to be loved. I'm not intelligent.