#insecurity

Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall. ↗

— John Krasinski

#bigger #comes #exponentially #extreme #fall

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity. ↗

— Gloria Gaynor

#camouflage #entertainers #find #insecure #insecurity

Unfortunately, I am only myself. I am scared and alone and unsure, but I am practicing. I am scared and alone and unsure, but that doesn't mean I always will be. Like AJ repeating words, I can repeat being me, until I start to believe it. ↗

— Lisa Burstein

#coming-of-age #insecurity #age

One of the most popular genital surgeries is labia minora reduction. When a similar procedure is performed on healthy girls in some African countries as a coming-of-age rite to control their sexuality, Westerners denounce it as genital mutilation; in the U.S. of A., it's called cosmetic enhancement. But both procedures are based on misogynist notions of female genitalia as ugly, dirty, and shameful. And though American procedures are generally performed under vastly better conditions (with the benefit of, say, anesthesia and antibiotics), the postsurgical results can be similarly horrific, involving loss of sensation, chronic pain, and infection. ↗

— Julia Scheeres

#insecurity #plastic-surgery #sex #age

Often people that say they “don’t care” actually do. The moment they call your house, send you an email, talk to your family or discuss you with their friends and family is when they give themselves away. You can either be saddened or flattered that you effected someone so much. The perspective is yours to determine. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#frustration #gossip #hidden-agendas #insecurity #not-caring

I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible. ↗

— Aleksandar Hemon

#individuality #insecurity #imagination

Your insecurity is when you compare your polaroid with someone else's glamour shot. ↗

— Brian Hooten

#inspirational #truth #inspirational

I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore ↗

— John Lennon

#insecurity #love #love

Often, what people don't say tell you more about the nature of their insecurities than what they do say. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#insecurity #people #relationships #nature

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough. ↗

— Criss Jami

#approval #authority #blanket #brute-force #brutes