Quotes About Insecurity

It's ironic, really. Guys should be excited that I got Kristen Bell. If Brad Pitt gets Kristen Bell, it's like, 'Well, of course he did.' With me, it should be, 'Oh good, a normal-looking guy got her. Maybe I'll get me a Kristen Bell.' But guys hate my guts for always dating women I have no right to be with.

The Hall Of Fame Is Built On Quicksand

Love is the fear of separation

If you don't make an enemy of envy, it will become your only friend

I always felt like I had to prove myself as a child, probably because other kids teased me about being a 'faggot.

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

There will always be men who rally to the cause of another man in his moment of disgrace simply because they fear their own so deeply.

It's amazing what the possiblity of romance can do to you. I'm self-conscious now in ways I never was before.

I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.

I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving.

Maybe I was being too picky. Maybe I didn't want to be close to anyone. Maybe I'd just be the type who couldn't feel love all the way or something. I couldn't tell what was wrong, but what was wrong was that it just wasn't right.

A new person in your life gives the rest of you a chance to be new, too. Your life can be whatever you want it to, from there on out. I leaned in and kissed and that is who I was to him, not shy, but bold. Not inhibited, but brave. I was that to him and so I kept being that. It was what I thought he wanted and what he was attracted to, and yet it was this, this exact thing I wasn't even really, that made him the most insecure.

Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.

We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better.

Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.

The problem is, she's done things too often because she didn't what to disappoint people.

You did that when you started to care a lot-- you worried he was watching your every move to make sure he really wanted you. You could forget that maybe you were supposed to be doing that too. You forgot it wasn't just you being watched and judged and trying to pass some test.

Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

Here is what happens when your mother worries: You become secretly worried. Anxiety plays in your background like bad grocery store music. You pace and count stuff and wake at night, your heart beating too fast. You pretend to be brave, and do stuff to prove you're not a scared person like she is.

Ass-kissing is the last resort of any anxious person who's in over their head.

Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!

Even if you become the most perfect version of yourself, someone will find something negative to say.

And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ever going to be.

If you want a strong future: Becoming secure with insecurity is the best security you can have.