/lit/ recommendations for books concerning insecurity, self-acceptance/self-contentment?

The Greeks. Start with them.

>>9063820
your diary desu

>>9063824
A lot of their aphorisms concerning these topics are great but I was looking for literature/novels.

It's all self-help. You gotta start creating not consuming.

>>9063820

The Bible

>>9063820
The wisdom of insecurity, by Watts, but it is not very /lit/ I guess

>>9063820
tou could try some bildungsromans, where the book usually starts with an innocent child full of insecurity and doubt and eventually find themselves living happily ever after due to deus ex machina! wait, nvm.

>>9063852
Appreciate the recommendation, but I've always been hesitant to read Watts have him categorized as a pseud for some reason, this book isn't gonna go into "brain chemistry" and bullshit like that is it?

>>9063820
Some Nietzsche, preferably from Beyond Good and Evil, or The gay Science

>>9063868
>brain chemistry
Nope, not at all, at least not in this book, it's more about searching wisdom in different places, essentially Buddhism, christianism and literature, he describes himself as a philosophy entertainer, so nothing really serious or deep or new, but it's worth a read

>>9063901
Cheers, I'll look into it