24 Quotes About Inadequacy

Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.

But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished.

When I show up to rescue myself I soon realize that I am less than what I need and that my need is greater than who I am. Hence, God showed up on Christmas to be more than both.

I too was pinched off from a piece of clay, I too modeled by omnipotence and flankedby things too wonderful for me

Whatever you have learned, Harry, you must rememberThat there is always more: we cannot rest in beingThe impatient spectators of malice or stupidity.We must try to penetrate the other private worldsOf make-believe and fear. To rest in our own sufferingIs evasion of suffering. We must learn to suffer more.

Yes, it's Lila who makes writing difficult. My life forces me to imagine what hers would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck.

Due to the trauma, we experience the fear of rejection, inadequacy, and/or the fear of powerlessness itself.

Prayer is knowing that what I ask for is always far bigger than what I could ever articulate, but it is never too big for God to understand nor is it ever too vast for Him to deliver.