Not Being True To Yourself Quotes

“If you were my age, I'd pretend I was happy ... but I'd be faking it.... My problem is discovering what not faking is - ...because my bearings are always pitched as to who I ought to be, not to who I am, to what I should have, not to what I never knew I craved, to life as I found it, not to the life I've let myself think was only a dream.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“When I’m acting out of low self-worth, I can beat myself up for hours for a silly mistake. Or attack the other person, in order to smoke-screen my dissatisfaction with myself. Or I may become anxious about my memory, worried about what else may be slipping out of control. I react to the other person’s angry words, instead of just seeing the hunger or tiredness or anxiety behind them. I feel slighted or humiliated or resentful about the way I’ve been spoken to. In a hundred different ways, I re-experience my inner suspicion of being “less than” or “not enough.”
― John Niland, The Self-Worth Safari: Valuing Your Life and Your Work